Thanks for the reply. I was able to boot in Safe Mode with networking. I
use Kaspersky anti-virus and I had uninstalled that . I had Norton in the
past and had to use their removal tool in order to install Kaspersky.

Anyway, I found another post that came in after mine about uninstalling
updates (thank you Michel Merlin)and realized I had not uninstalled the IE
Update (969897) when I took out the others that came in the June update but
then did find it in a different place in the Add/Remove program. Took that
out as well as 961501 which had reinstalled itself in the interim. IE worked
on reboot!!!

Now I am not sure what to do about updates. I think I will avoid them until
I hear MS has figured out why this update is casuing problems for some users.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Can you boot into Safe Mode? ...into Safe Mode with Networking?
>
> What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
> subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
> What third-party firewall (if any)?
>
> Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
> (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>
>
> MJ wrote:
> > My computer (WINXP SP3) did it's auto update thing last night and this
> > morning I was unable to open IE 7. So I uninstalled updates dated
> > 6/10/2009
> > though Add and Remove Programs and still no IE7. Tried several reboots as
> > well. Messneger and Outlook work fine. Tried to do System Restore but
> > that
> > module also will not open and the management console shut down when I was
> > trying to read error messages the same way. Tried this both in regular
> > boot and in safe mode but could not access IE or System Restore in either.
> > Help!!
>
>