Guys, So for some dumb reason I hit the restore from 'last known good' option to restore to an old save point. What I didn't realize was just how old thta point was. Using the machine has slowly realized what a mistake this has been. many major apps no longer start at all. many apps crap out when they make calls to other apps (rpc.dll). The overall system performance has degraded significantly. Oh, and I realized that the reason I restored to begin with was a mistake all along. So the question is, is there a way to undo a 'last known good (LKG)' command? (windows XP SP1, Looking in System