Combat Wombat,
First I want to say Super Thank You for your help in this matter, as I feel you are the only one to have the knowledge and
expertise to take on the problem. Just the time it took you to put the reply together was a thing in itself, for I knew that in just the time it took me to read it.
I had worked in the registry many times back in the 90's, knew very well it is not a place to make goofs. In that time period of 12-14 years I must be honest that I forgot how to get in to the "registry".
Now to get to the heart of the problem, first I went to Diskeeper and every thing looked in place. Then I went to Session Manager to the BootExecute, of where you said that under normal circumstances, be autocheck aotochk * . Well it had the following, autocheck "autocheck autochk *" , from there I took out the first autochek word, and then removed the quotation marks and save on exiting. I then hit restart, and after the xp-Pro start up window, a Windows screen came up right off and did a checkdics on drive C:, Then removed a number of orphan files , rewrote a sector for boot up, for which this all took 4-5 minutes, then it rebooted, and after the XP-Pro screen, it booted direct up to my password and straight into the desktop, for the first time in months. Combat Wombat, you did one terrific job, for before I put my problem on Tom's Hardware, I was in touch with Microsoft's head techs at $99. for 60 minutes "did not have to pay", for they could not resolve the problem, and one of the techs led me to a url, of where they are having the same problem as I in Window's 7! Microsoft wrote me a e-mail and apologized for not being able to resolve the matter, ash me to try again.
Combat Wombat, I know it is impossible to make direct contact with you, but have a very special place that I would like to have you stay free for 3-4 nights, for which very few people get the chance.
Again a very big Thank You,
Presview