Thanks for looking,

I have a litle bit of time now so I can have a bash , I was weary of doing a restore and making things worse, but enough people must have had a squiz at the hjt log by now, so I would guestimate that theres nothing obvious...

I have indeed checked permissions etc ad all seem fine , however I am unable to save anywhere else either (desktop for instance..)

My son initially wanted to download a small game or something and he needs my admin authorisation which works just fine (well it did lol)  but after entering my admin pass, it gave me those details...

I then tried to download it to my own 'program file under my own log in for the same massages...

I was able to download HJT I think it was , but only because there was allready a file there so the pop-up said do you want to overwrite... and it allowed me to do that...

I'll try the restore now malaware seems less likely...

I've read so much on vista that half people say dont use it and half say its ok :s but there seems to be soo many Vista bashers out there its hard to know what to believe...

I do seem to remember there were a few updates around that time ... too..

Thanks again, Nick.

Sure....

Its chugging away now....

If I remember correctly I uninstalled three of the four updates around that time , as one was unremovable... to no avail, so i have gone to the restore point before that from memory.

as the computer was otherwise usable i wasn't to deperate, as i was in the midst of trying to purge /clean/remove/dissinfect my brothers computer at the time LOL...

So in the absense of any further advice I was happy to leave it for the time being :)

 heres hoping it will do th trick, it's just fired up :)

Nick.

ok... so its let me download avast.... superantispyware....spywareblaster to wherever I want so it seems its fixed... but now I guess I have to break it again with updates again :(

(no i dont think I have an infection, just struggling for things to downlload hehe)

ho hum.. one at a time this time ;)

maybe a reeboot to be certain too :)

Thanks for giving me the confidence to use restore Pawk :)

well the sneaky old downloads crept up on me and I ended up installing 6 widows updates that had sat lying in wait ready to pounce on poor unsuspecting me ....

Forgive the over dramatisation, but thats how it felt hehe..

anyway all seems well on the download front :)

However I ended up with a System event Notification system error preventing any standard user logging on.....

Couldnt find enough info, but further updates were suggested so i carried that out and was then able to access the other useres, after a reboot, and further recomended updates are now in progress... so far so good at the moment

Thanks again for the 'push' to use restore that i needed..

Now if you can tell me how to have one instance of a program running serving all users instead of seperate user updated versions I'd be a happy man :)  But thats for another thread ;)

Cheers Pawk