When a "GUEST" logs onto my computer, an "ERROR: Access is denied" box pops up. It takes three clicks to close this error box and then everything else loads up. My question is... What is this error box referring to? How do I correct things so that this won't continually show up when the Guest Logon is used. Right now, it's an annoyance.....and I don't want to just ignore it, should it be a sign of something else to come. Thanks so much for you help. Coach_NoVA

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I can't say I would do a reinstall for that. What I think is going on is that some other program that requires more permissions is trying to start but since you are on a guest account it squaks. Open taskmanager and see what is running and backtrack it. Some things like Nero have programs to allow guests to use. Otherwise just leave or make a limited user account but it still might not like it. Anyway it would be best to only use guest for 90% of the time. That way you can be sure things are not able to be run in Administrator rights.