Hi Grif.
Your reply was duly noted. I did as you said with respect to entering privacy. I shall see later whether anything will happen.
In cleaning out the registry. I noted that there were quite a lot of logs and lists to be removed. There were others which I took for granted to be o.k. to remove so I am not sure as to what really occurred.
Meanwhile I thank you for your reply and will wait to see further developments.
Oh, by the way I forgotto tell you that I had restored the system's defaults.
Standeb.

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