William

well, a bit of good news....i took my windowsxp disc, stuck it in the driver and when i was prompted I booted from the cd....i elected to reinstall the windows from the disc and then when prompted I selected the Recovery Repair selection instead of the Fresh copy install....well, it worked..not only did i get my computer back, i didnt lose any of my documents or folders...whew!! i feel like i dodged a bullet, but now im just a little bit pissed because i am sure the reason i lost my lsass.exe file in the first place was because of "Spyware Stormer"...iono, i've used this program for a long time and never had that type of problem before...if that was the problem, maybe it will help one or two of you other problem computer people....it may not be the same problem for everyone, but it did unlock my issue and I thought I would share it with ya. thanks for having a forum like this that people in my shoes can resort to when we are issues with the things we know very little about...it did help pave the way for me isolating the problem and solving it...in fact, the only reason I even felt it was the spyware was that it was the only common denominator which factored in BOTH computers having the exact same error message, immediately after rebooting, after scanning for "infections"....had it not been for me scanning both computers at the same time, getting the same results, i dont know if I would have ever figured this one out.....ty