>Also, if the machine is hanging even during the boot process, then I doubt any Adobe product has anything to do with it.
I doesn't hang during boot, I saw it happen just after booting when a dos command was the first thing I ran. I did overlook the hardware, and many of you have quite rightly pointed the finger at that. I'll poke around inside the thing tonight and see if there's anything suspicious I can remove. I recall it has two DVD burners, a networked Brother printer and a USB Brother MFC, but not much besides that. It's using Microsoft Security Essentials instead of the dreadful and useless AVG that I eradicated from this place a few months ago. There is still some weird stuff happening the event logs that I'll look at later as well. Greg
