Okay, now this is very curious.

Last week I had to do the remote thing with the Verizon Online Tech guy. I went through 3 of them before the 3rd one, fixed whatever problem I was having (god help me, I can't even remember why I called them).

So everything worked fine for 7 days.
This morning, I turn on my computer and instead of the Wecome XP thing going on, I get a Black screen that is counting down and I guess it wants me to select an option like "open in safe mode,", open in safe mode with networking", and one of those options is "use the most recent configuation that worked" (or something like that).

So naturally I chose that one, and then I got the welcome screen.

So why the heck, after 5 days of turning on the computer and it comes on fine, is it now prompting me to open in safe mode, or the other prompts.
I mean, it should not be doing this right??

Thanks to anybody who knows.