I know better, and I didn't listen to myself. I was trying to help a friend with his clogged up laptop. HP Pavilion ze4900, 1 GB RAM, XP home SP2. Does not have the rescue disk and not available from HP. I have run CCleaner hundreds of times on maybe 70 PC's, never had a problem. It removed TONs of Crap. On the registry cleanup I saved the changes. I SHOULD have rebooted at this point. Duhh! I have had great success running ASquared - virus, adware, malware, worm - scanner many times. It removed 20 high risk worms and malware, and 15 low and medium risk malware/adware. I should have creat