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Hi. I've had to boot into Linux Mint, which is on another drive to post. Things are rapidly deteriorating in my Windows install, all the browsers are returning page errors, a lot of the system admin services won't display and various other issues.
My thought is to abandon this install. I only did it on Monday so it was only half set up anyway, as I only have the evenings to do stuff.
I need to avoid the same mistake again. Everything seemed fine at first so I'm tempted to think it was either an infected download from a legit site. I was putting on a lot of freeware, such as CCleaner, ISOrecorder, Rocket Dock etc etc.
Also coincident with this happening was me using EasyBCD to access my Linux install and the arrival of numerous security updates plus SP1. One of the updates appeared as cancelled but I didn't cancel it knowingly so either I did it accidently or I don't know what.
I reckon it will be easier to do another clean install as W7 is swiftly becoming unusable.
What do you think folks and thanks very much for your support, John