Sorry about that, pre-maturely hit enter instead of tab....anyway i previously installed software that said it needed to do something b4 starting windows...i then forgot about it for a while deleted that program...now everytime i start up my computer, it still tries to do what was scheduled, to find that the program it needed was deleted. Where are these pre-load instructings stored? In a specific file, or MBR or something? I need to delete this operation, because now i can't run other things pre-load such as checkdisk and partition magic because it still looks to do the other operation first.