Well, I hacked at it some more. I uninstalled all traces with revo uninstaller. Cleaned the registry with Cclean. Used JV16 to look for traces. REboot, then fresh install. Eveything is the same. The language indicated in the tools setting is English. The language displayed by the buttons and "instructions" is Spanish as best I can tell - or possibly Portuguese. This is an odd situation. I'm stuck to the extent that I will try an alternate program to issue boot instructions and abandon (not so)EasyBCD. Weird indeed. Any ideas ,,,, Anyone? Hello, is anyone there? Help! I'm melting ..... Yaaaaaaaa > :scared: