Hey all,
 I encountered a problem recently. When my computer boots up I can see the
wallpaper come up on the screen but I have no icons. Then when the icons
appear my wallpaper disappears. I am running xp home edition service pak 2.

I have unchecked PCHealth in msconfig some time ago.This is perhaps the
cause
of the absence of restoration points.The related checkbox has vanished from
msconfig.

My statement about PCHealh and system restore comes from:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=ca&docname=bhp07103
RogerS

Yesterday, after removing much old rubbish from a small (3gb) HD and
updating ME and IE, I defragged, checked a few sites to find out if there
was a quicker way of doing it, then defragged again.  I did not notice much
improvement the speed of loading apps, but it has been some ...

How do mere mortals find the actual "product owner" of scores of cloaked
CLSID registry keys which the SysInternals rootkit revealer revealed?
The background on this simple question is lengthy (and in the public record
already) - essentially, I ran Mark Russinovich's SysInternals ...

Anyone know the price to upgrade from Windows ME to Windows XP?
Thanks.
Brian

Do Strider GhostBuster Rootkit downloads actually exist?
I read every line of the Microsoft Windows Defender Research page
http://research.microsoft.com/rootkit - but I still don't see where to
downlod the actual GhostBuster utility.

I used Windows update about 2 weeks ago and updated Internet Explorer (Ver
6.0.2800.1106 Update Ver. Q896688) - No problems. I sell a few things on
e-bay from time to time and started to list another item. When I got to the
picture upload page the enhanced picture program (Active X ...

Is there a system file checker option for Windows Me?  If so, where, and if
not, is there any way to check the integrity of the system files?  Thanks for
your time.
Dave

Hi again. PLEASE Help. Tried everything as far as I can see. Can't access
system restore. Do you know of another program that will do the same?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;274092
Can't get beyond this message just a LOOP. Followed the instructions on this

Problem 1: Scan Disk and Defrag will not finish. They run endlessly until I
get a message that says it tried repeatedly but something else is writing to
the hard drive.
Problem 2: When I go to Contol Panel, Font and File menu I'm supposed to

I'm working on a W-ME machine that indicates infected files in the
_restore\temp folder. Using Mike M's replies to previous post I found the
-restore\temp foler.
My question is, is it safe to just delete what's in the temp folder or is