..... BUT now can't view any pictures in received received emails,just a blank box where they should be????????????????

Is this forwarded email from Hotmail ?

Checked,yes only forwarded emails.

In the meantime, remove the above entry using HijackThis. I'm not sure why you boot time is so slow. I could take you through a Clean Boot scenario, but it could take ages to troubleshoot that way via the forum.

How much space is left on your hard drive?

Do you have the ASUS XP disc and Drivers or just a Restore partition(or both)?

HiJack This scan did not find : O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - (no file)

Hard drive free space C: 32 Gig D: 131Gig

ASUS have "VGA Driver" disc. ' Restore Partition'??? Outside my league.

Not a problem. If all is well now we'll leave it there.

Restore Partition is a place reserved on the hard drive for re-installing the Operating System and Drivers.

Machines without a Restore Partition may come with a separte OS disc(in your case XP) and a Drivers disc, in the case you need to 'rip it up and start again'.

If you don't have these items, but you have any more problems, just post again with the full model number of your machine and I'll send you the disc images.

Thanks to all for your time and patience.