Another day..... and a little progress. I have managed to get an internet connection by disabling the MS ISATAP adapter that was causing a problem - Error 31. However, I cannot use MS Outlook as every time I try to launch it, Internet Exporer says it has stopped working, closes down and restarts. And now everything has frozen, except the cursor. Black screen. Error message "logon has failed to create the security options dialog" "Failure-Security Options" CLicked OK and now got IE up but not responding. Cntrl Alt Del not working. May have to shut down with the start button........ Bugger. May not get booted in normal again for a while.
Rebooted nearly an hour ago and decided to let the laptop do a System repair. It has tried to restart, but is now a blank blue screen with occasional flickers from HD LED