Shanold1,
Keep in mind also, that if a system restore corrects the situation there is every reason to believe something is changing your settings, and this is not an MTU software issue but a system issue.
I've been told by a very reliable pc tech that if a situation like this persists, get rid of any unnecessary programs in the start up menu, do a scan disc, do a disc clean up to get rid of temp files, unwanted files, etc., and when everything is as it should be, that is the time to do a disc defrag, to lock in the settings. Some may take issue with that, but it sure can't harm anything.
Yeah Jon, I remember that. He(Chairman Gates) was introducing either ME or 2000 and the system crashed during the presentation and could not recover simply by re-booting.
George