Its gone this time. And youre logs are clean now , do you still have any problems with youre pc?

I don't think so, I managed to get rid of the ?????? on my taskbar. I found out that the ?????? was supposed to be AM or PM next to the clock. I found the registry instrcutions on microsoft.com

I then found some other registry instructions to get my shutdown button and run button back.

As far as I know that's all that was caused, but it seemed like chaos at the time.

Thanks for all your help you've been excellent.

Thats great to hear. And youre welcome ofcourse.

Marked as Fixed , and see you around at PCHF.