If anyone can recommend a better Newgroup to post this to
let me know.
I downloaded and installed NIS on my Compaq, xp desktop.  
The pre-install scan found anc cleaned up a bunch of

I have 2 physical hard drives, each partitioned with 2
partitions each.  Thus, C, D, E, F.  All are NTFS.  "C"
is my system drive.
When I open the System Restore Settings, only drives D,

Recently, I encountered a Disk Cleanup utility freeze [ hang ] problem
I follow Microsoft KB 812930, and use the Registry Editor to delete the folder of Compress Old Files
The procedure works and my Disk Cleanup is working again
However, I did not Export and Save the Compress Old ...

I recently (tried) installed TurboTax Basic and the
installation hung at "installing fonts". Shut down using
Task Mgr and during shut down it complete install. Next
boot, got to wallpaper, no desktop icons appeared and it

Using Windows XP Professional and Internet Explorer.  When
Internet Explorer is working with DSL, I many times have
the problem of being able to copy from one application,
and NOT being able to paste to another application.  As

thanks map and gerry
svc host isnt in my widows folder, and i have current
norton antivirus.
however, i went through all the services like was

I Have read that there is a way to change the logon
screen in xp but i tried it and it doesnt work because i
need an RGB Color number to correspond to what i want to
use.

When I try to download the update I need for the patch I
need to get rid of a virus on my computer (the virus is
msblast.exe) it will not let me onto the update screen. It
says:

XP is "hanging" when I go to power down the system.  It
goes through log-off and starts the shut down but will
not power off.  I've used the troubleshooter and also
reloaded xp.  Any suggestions?

For Windows XP repair using After "sfc /scannow", do I have to Reload SP1,
an other updates?
Or after a WinXP CD repair process, do I  have to Reload SP1 and will
WindowsUpDate reload all of the updates?

When clicking on the "my computer" icon or accessing it
from any other location it takes several minutes to open
showing all my drives and etc.  I can find no information
on how to correct this.

I have 2 XP OS's loaded on 1 machine and have run into a
driver accessability problem. The first operating system
I thought was Un-installed when I then reloaded XP. Now I
have 2 options, the first is the corrupted XP and the 2nd

svchost.exe(system) and system(system) are usin up the
entire cpu between the two of them. not sharin recources
with other progs.

Will Windows need to be re-installed after the
installation of a new CPU? I want to get a new
motherboard, so I'm going to start over and re-install,
but I don't have the money right now to get a new CPU as

My computer is two days old and already when I boot up it
says "Cannot find VB40016.DLL". What is this and how do I
fix it?      Also when I boot up I get another error
message that says "cannot find C:\Windows\Temp\MSETUP.exe