Help please. Installed avast! about a week ago @ the suggestion of my PC repair guy and have been impressed at everything it found that spybot S&D and McAffee could not find up to that point. Did this because the machine got in the habit of not starting Explorer during start-up and it seemed to fix this problem after removing previous protection applications. But now I have a problem. Did a normal shut-down 2 days ago and when attempted to start machine later that day it gets to the XP welcome screen and stops..... no icons, mouse will move, but nothing else happens. Have pressed boot menu (f12) button on start-up many times during repeated attempts to reset but it seems to ignore this. I'm just a user, not a programmer, not sure if this is related to the avast! install but it is the most recent thing to change about the machine. I would really appreciate any help. We are in deep S%$& without this machine working and without access to quicken and on-line bill-pay. Not afraid to get my hands dirty but my experience is limited and will need patient 5th grade level explanations please.