I acquired an xp desktop with a virus that someone identified as "system tools" virus. I reinstalled XP from a cd, doing a complete reformat of the HD. when I was done there were two entries for XP in boot.ini; one of them pointed to a nonexistent partition, so i deleted it. I havn't been able to install google chrome or flash player. I've got three questions: 1: how did the boot.ini get two entries? 2: could it still have a virus? 3: if it does have a virus, how did it survive the reinstall? -- Blessings, Jacob Smith Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml