Hi W3bbo, I destoyed my VM! :| The fist attached file shows the error message, which shows up after clicking the Restart button as mentioned before. The second file shows the error message, which pops up after launching the device manager for instance - but it occurs also on 'Event notification', 'Administration' and 'Services' (my system is in German and thats my translation... hope you can figure out, what I mean). It says: "Error while creating an empty document" Windows was not able to restore the system, so the device manager is gone now... I could finde some new icons on the system properties dialog. - So, that worked fine. Regards, Busty PS: May I ask? What is the deal with WindowsX?