Thanks, James, Firstly, welcome to TS!, it's a great site, they have helped me a LOT, I got rid of the "NT" bug with their help, couldn't assess TS on my PC, as it kept shutting down, so went along to my local computer repair shop, they accessed & d/loaded a patch....£1!. I have kept the floppy, just as well, as, a month later, back it came again.
Yes, I found that I had Opistat, I will try what you suggested.
Last night, after five hours of d/loading & installing Microsoft Updates, right at the very last, it just "stuck", it was "running programmes after install". I left it for just over an hour, there was a little h/drive actitivity,...a few blinks, that's all, it was still on-line.
In the end, it was very late, so I had no alternative but to shut my PC down, which took some doing, but at least I didn't have to use the switch. Whn I booted up a few minutes later, it stuttered a bit, but seems OK now [ I did check on installation history, & it HAD failed]
I just threw this at you, to see if you had any thoughts [will probably get told off by TS for going off the subject matter...won't be the first time!]
Ifind that I should have disabled my Norman AV, so will do this, & try again later, thanks, & thanks for listening, I do tend to "go on" it's my age you know, be my guest have a look at my profile, I have yours! .....did you know, you can go back & add to your profile [if you wanted to, of course]
All the best, Maurice, honoured to be your first "customer"