>>Follow the brilliant advice of Microsoft tech support: Reboot! :)
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>Once upon a time (in 1995, to be precise) we had a MSDN subscription, and were getting all those shiny coasters with the hole in the middle. Many of them had the recent versions of Windows, NT3.x something and WFWG and whatnot... well, I can clearly remember that there was a friendly warning on many of those disks: "do not forget to reinstall the OS once a month". I should have kept one as a souvenir.

rofl! I remember that NT 3.51 came out in early 1995. Would you believe that I have the original floppy disks for Windows Operating Systems 286 and 386? Such memories or is that nightmares? :)

Now you have me remembering some of Microsoft's DOS Operating Systems. Was it 4.X that was a total dog? Not that it matters - Microsoft just keeps rolling along and we love it! :)