thanks alot for your time.
@ripbox
yes my account is an administrator all the accounts on this computer are
and i have already tried running as admin and it does what it always does, the UAC prompt comes up and the i can see the mouse loading thingy, and then nothing
@ acadamis2000
once again thank you for your time.
and i tried your suggestion but just the same as above i get the UAC and then nothing.
ill just wait a bit and see if anyone else has any ideas.
BTW does anyone think that a virus might have done anything because we did have a virus a few days ago but that is now gone.
thanks again for everyones help!!!
Braydon