Thanks Chris and all the others who made suggestions. I have given up and used my system restore disks to put the computer back to factory original. That went fine and now am installing Windows 7. t Then will try my backup that I made some time ago. It should have most of my programs and settings on it. If not, I have a lot of work to do yet installing all the programs. I am not going to install all of them though. There were a lot on there that I never used.
Just waiting now for Windows 7 to finish installing and then I can get to work again. Has been a long day on the computer! I am going to keep this little netbook that I am using now on Ubuntu, but not going to put it on the laptop again.
Thanks again for all the help. :)
Barney