XP problems ?!?

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John Charbonneau

I have XP home edition on a Dell 8250. Lately (one month)
I have been unable to get to any restore points of the
last 3 months. In addition when I start programs such as
Norton antivirus it only runs for a few seconds and
then "disappears" Today I tried to install MS Office 2003
and the product key log in screen only was visible for
about 5 seconds so I could not enter the 25 characters!
<sigh>. I reinstalled XP yesterday to see if it would
solve the first problem but it still is going on. Any
ideas or directions would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
John
 
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I have XP home edition on a Dell 8250. Lately (one month)
I have been unable to get to any restore points of the
last 3 months. In addition when I start programs such as
Norton antivirus it only runs for a few seconds and
then "disappears" Today I tried to install MS Office 2003
and the product key log in screen only was visible for
about 5 seconds so I could not enter the 25 characters!
<sigh>. I reinstalled XP yesterday to see if it would
solve the first problem but it still is going on. Any
ideas or directions would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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I belive if you will reinsatll xp from the dos side it
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will fix this issue. if you reload on insatll all xp does
is reinstall what you have and you keep the same issues.
when you load from the does side it restores the whole
program..rb
 
John;
You possibly have a virus.
Run an updated virus scan.
Or Scan for Viruses online:
http://security.symantec.com/ssc/home.asp?j=1&langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=IRLFIZTYMWPAZTJWUFJ
Run Disk Cleanup checking all boxes except "Compress old files"
(Windows XP)
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean-up
Check this link:
http://www.aumha.org/a/noads.php
Run Ad-Aware (free version) or Spybot to check for spyware:
http://www.lavasoft.de/ (Update if you already have it)
Or
http://spybot.eon.net.au/ (Update if you already have it)

Otherwise check for and replace damages system files
Start/Run
Type "cmd" ENTER
Type "sfc /scannow" ENTER
Have Windows XP CD available.
 
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