In fact it can start, but there's no response when I click button
analyze or defagment.
To improve the performance, I set some services to manual startup.
Maybe that's the reason?

I'd welcome some advice please. I have two identical HDs at present on
my AMD Athlon XP1800, 512MB, both 60GB 7200rpm MAXTOR 6L060J3 UDMA-133
EIDE with 2MB buffer. Although it's been so long that I've forgotten
exactly how I did it, they are partitioned as follows:

Does XP have a built-in registry cleaner/checker, and how do I access it?
Thanks.

When I use "search" from Windows Explorer, the system doesn't find the files
I'm looking for, even when I KNOW they are there.
It only fails on my C: drive - I have an external drive (drive X:) and the
same search spec finds the files perfectly (all I change is the location to

Ok I know if you go from Win9X to XP Pro it's best to format and do a clean
install but is there any advantage to do this when you go from XP Home to XP
Pro? I did my yearly clean install of XP Home a couple of months ago so not
much junk is there.

I am sure this points to a machine problem more than office, but it involves
office, so here it goes:
If I click on an office file, it takes upwards of 10 minutes for the
document/spreadsheet/powerpoint file to open;

I was getting some annoying 'messenger service' popups, and read in the
newsgroups that installing a firewall is a much better option rather
than disabling messenger service. I installed the sygate free firewall.
After installing this firewall, I started to get a lot of

This morning my computer was working fine and as usual before leaving for a
few hours I closed the cover to habernate.
When I came to restart I reopened the cover and the computer did not restar
as usual instead it stayed black, I moved the mouse to activate but nothing

Could someone please tell me how to speed up my IE.  I have tried everything
that I know of, but it is still very slow.

For the past few few weeks, I have been hounded by DEP (Data Execution
Prevention).
I have a Sony VAIO Computer not even a year old. Until recently, I had no
problems. However, now, whenever I run Windows Explorer, it is shutdown by

Have recently installed norton ghost 10. Am now experiencing slow shutdown.
Windows requires me to end Smax4PNP and ShellIconHiddenWindow. I own a
Toshiba m40 laptop with xp home. Hive cleanup service is installed. Have had
applications in the past (Zone Alarm, Spyware Doctor) ...

What is the people's opinion on the Webroot Internet Essentials software
program.
I want to keep my software as clean as possible so it runs to its maximum
capability.

I need to configure one of our company's XP Pro SP2 desktop to be "always on"
which just like a server that is always available, no standby or hiberate.
Because the desktop need to run some scheduled tasks in the evening.
I logged on to the desktop with my AD account and changed ...

Ok, I'm I am fairly green when it comes to advanced settings on m
system so go easy on me please.
A few days ago I had a trojan on my system which i have now managed t
delete and the system is working fine when i can get into it. Th

Currently have this description related to an error message listed within my
even viewer on a winxp PRO machine:
"The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x000000c2
(0x00000007, 0x00000cd4, 0x024c0010, 0x84e006f0). A dump was saved in: