Thanks for the advice on this and the tip to obtain Hijack this.
I also found that the conflict noted in the Event Viewer was related to parallel port (LPT1) and showed up as problem in device manager. By going into BIOS and changing PNP to "OFF" the conflict was resolved.
BZ
here is the hijack scan data:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 7:29:59 PM, on 1/19/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe...
I've copied some info from app and system errors in Event Viewer:
Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, faulting module gdiplus.dll, version 5.1.3101.0, fault address 0x000214b1.
Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, faulting module flash.ocx, version...
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