dsy5

The registry tweak from the above KB article did the trick Thanks a bunch, guys.

I did a system restore to just before the update and the problem went away. I can't seem to find the update 908951 you refer to and I'm not sure that I want to remove my scanner and printer software for the HP stuff. If this is caused by the new update, I don't understand why removing the HP software would help? Maybe you could enlighten me

I just received the latest Automatic Update from Microsoft today. After restarting, it seems to have goofed up Windows Explorer! Now whenever I open it from the right context of the start button and choose explore, it opens with the Start Menu and I cannot click on the [+] open nodes to open any drives or folders. All that happens is an hour glass. I can click on each folder to show the contents in the right pane, but the treeview functionality seems to be gone. Anyone else experience this anomaly?

This may seem like a dumb question, but... Does it matter what order the hotfixes are listed in SVCPACK.INI? It would seem that if the latest fixes are executed first, any changes made by older fixes (later in the list) could supercede the newer ones. Or is that what QCHAIN.EXE is for?