With the help of some online technical expertise I went through some pain removing some spyware and installing some products to help remove and to help prevent, and after I finished yesterday, today I enter IPCONFIG on the command line and it flashes ip addrs on the black window and the window disappears.  Huh?  Help! Unbelievable. Installed things like Avenger (to delete some reg entries), eWido to scan and remove malware, Windows Defender, Zoned-out+IE-Spyad ( a restricted site list product), CCleaner, Killbox, SpywareBlaster.