Mark Twain wrote:
Understood, but the thing that I'm curious about
is that I do absolutely nothing on the 780 except
updates and scans unless the 8500 has a problem
I don't use the 780.

Robert

The strangest thing I ever had happen on a computer,
was installing Java JRE. And on the next reboot, a
Promise RAID software package started installing itself.
The card was no longer present on the computer, and I may
have attempted two years previously to install the software
and it didn't work.

In that case, somehow the presence of the Java software
the Promise package needed, allowed the installation attempt
to complete. Even though it was happening two years after
the fact.

I don't think there are too many pieces of software on
computers, that work that way. Maybe some .NET thing
that changed during a Windows Update, finally allowed
some software to start running.

You could use Autoruns, to examine the C: to see what
Startup items might be armed. It's better though, if
you have the dialog box with the error still on the
screen, to use Task Manager and look for it. Trying to
trace Startup items, isn't a sure-fired debugging method.

Paul