My apologies and a big bouquet of thanks.
My problem ws indeed exactly the same & the suggested fix did fix it.

Thank you so much.

balatif
(still trying to get my zone alarm to auto start)

Thanks for the thanks.

The erring application can vary but as the Microsoft page points out it basically relates to their applying a new Hhctrl.ocx file.

The Hhctrl.ocx file that is included in security update 928843 and the User32.dll file that is included in security update 925902 have conflicting base addresses. This problem occurs if the program loads the Hhctrl.ocx file before it loads the User32.dll file.