>When I did the search I was wondering if McAfee might be the problem. But that doesn't seem to be the situation in your case. The links point to one or more MS updates that seem to cause profile problems for some people, which are similar symptoms to what you're seeing.

Yes, the one ending with 355 has been reported. That was the first one I removed. This did not change anything. Then, I removed everything up until April 4. This is when everything was ok. That did not change anything. More than 49 updates were removed. Then, I reinstalled them again. This is still a no go.