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I apologize in advance if this is really a Super User question... I just wasn't sure, but this seems more on the dev. side than on the tech support side. :) This isn't necessarily a problem, but it does actually drive me totally bonkers on my system. It also only happens on my computer. When I launch any application, even a blank WPF application, I see four exceptions: A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException' occurred in PresentationCore.dll A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in mscorlib.dll A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in PresentationCore.dll To figure out where these are coming from, I then set VS2008 to break on any thrown CLR exceptions, and here is the information: Exception #1: Cannot find a part of the path 'D:\Dell\Reader2.0\SPLASH.SYS\fonts\AscenderUni.ttf'. Exception #2: Culture name 'ug' is not supported. Parameter name: name Exception #3: Culture name 'ug' is not supported. Parameter name: name Exception #4: There is no registered CultureInfo with the IetfLanguageTag 'ug'. I've poked through Process Monitor and Process Explorer. Process Monitor shows that my application is doing a RegQueryValue, which I'm certainly not responsible for... but some DLL (presumably from Dell crapware) is getting loaded by my process and is reading this regkey. I then looked at Process Explorer, hoping to see which DLLs my application is loading, but can't find that info. I then tried PrcView and saw the modules my application was loading. I was surprised to see how many other modules were getting loaded, but I didn't see anything Dell related. I'm also wondering how it is possible that a Norton Internet Se

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