Alright, I checked out "Application" first & found: a whole bunch of "Information", many "Warning" which had "Symantec AntiVirus" a few times, in large batches during a single day, "Ms Installer" a couple/few times, in batches of probably two, & "Userenv" everyday, in batches of two, right around the time I usually shut down the computer. When I clicked on such, I got the following: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1517 Date: 1/18/2007 Time: 7:35:42 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: E58AEB3F9A6342E Description: Windows saved user E58AEB3F9A6342E\Owner registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. So I went there & was validated. Then I downloaded & installed, & I'm positive I ran, the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service. Then I tried shutting down & the computer still hung at "Saving Settings" & needed turned off manually! The other thing I got under "Application" was a few "Error" & each one was "Application Error". I checked out "Security" but there was only "Success audit". I checked out "Internet Explorer" and there was nothing. I checked out "System" and there was a whole bunch of "Information", several "Error" & each of those were "Service Control Manager", & several "Warning" & most of those were "tcpip", plus a few "W32Time". I haven't checked out any of the other "Warning" & "Error". I don't know what to do b/c I'm computer-illiterate. I think I'll just print all this out after submitting my reply & take such to Best Buy during the computer's annual checkup under our performance service plan/extended warranty, which is in May & let the Geek Squad deal with it.

I bought my daughter a Dell Inspiron 1000(Win XP), when she started college. It is now about 3 1/2 years old. For the last several months-it has done this same thing. Usually after several tries-I get it to boot into Windows and I do a system restore-back to a date when it was working properly. It will then boot with no problems for a few weeks-then it will do the same thing again. I have taken it to a couple of different places to have it fixed. The first PC Tech replaced the LCD cable. It didn't fix the problem. The second PC Tech said he couldn't find any thing wrong with the laptop other than some settings-which he changed. The problem is still not fixed. So if anyone out here has any idea what could possibly fix this problem-I would be very grateful. I really hate to keep spending time and money and still have the same old problem-so now the laptop just sits most of the time, and she is using one of my desktops. I have been told that the problem might be the motherboard-but if this were the case-would it work after a system restore? All of my daughter's files are backed up-so should I try to reinstall everything to the way it was originally. Can I do this with the disks that came with the laptop? Thanks

Please do the steps below that will enable you to read the EXACT blue screen error next time the pc blue screens, post the error here, a blue screen error can be related to many things this will only be the start of finding the exact cause. 1.Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. 2.Click the Advanced tab. 3.Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box. 4.Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times. 5.Restart your computer for the settings to take effect. Now when you go to shut down and a fatal error occurs, you'll at least see it and it won't cause an automatic reboot. then we can sort out what's causing the problem.

the issue that we were discussing over there was that Amazon has a practice of banning customers, some for very minor issues, another forum I am on there were a few people there that it happened to, they posted copies of the email from amazon and the reason for banning, both were due to having returned items, one gal had been shopping there for many years and had in all that time only returned a couple of items in the under $50 range, when they began searching google they found many many with the same thing happening to them. Amazon not only banned them from purchasing on amazon but those that had bought Kindle's from them found that their library was locked down and they were no longer able to access the books which they had bought and paid for. Plus they were cut off from customer support for their Kindle and could not buy books any longer which pretty much made their kindle useless. The thing I thought was very wrong in the equation was blocking them from the books which they had already paid for and owned. I had never ever heard of this from Amazon either and was surprised till I did a google search. On the cases where someone is trying to do wrong and a con job by buying and returning big ticket items I can see them doing something but these were just regular people doing regular ordering and were given no warning at all simply banned and were not even allowed to contact them. It almost made me wonder if there was some disgruntled Amazon employees doing it to cause Amazon problems. Apparently the website consumerist has had some cases reported to them. That is about all I know about it. If it had not happened to some regulars on another forum I am on I probably would not have known of it. I order from Amazon all the time too, never had to return anything yet fortunately. this is what I found using google Amazon Banned Me