The guidance provided by Christy WORKED..!!! Thanks Christy, and also to those others who offered their advice... David Hurst Christy wrote: > Good morning David > > Mcafee has placed at minimum two items in your registry to start > up its vshield > you should be able to find the two that I know of in > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run* > > * being that there are multiple Run items (run/runonce/etc) > > Simply open the run sections and find the line on the right that > references vshield right click on JUST that one single entry and > delete once you have deleted them both close registry and reboot > should fix your problem > > If you decide that you again want mcafee vshield run on start up > you will need to reinstall the program to reset these values > > Hopefully that helps > > Christy Duncan > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 5/9/00 at 10:03 PM David Hurst wrote: > > > >Is there any way to get and keep Vshield out of the tray..??? > > > >would appreciate > >thanks > > > >David Hurst > > > > Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcsoft.html