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Update: The worst has happened. The hard disk is Knackered. I've just had to go online and buy a new Dell......will be back on when i get it. Any good Free protection downloads appreciated. Thanks Bogey

Well guys would you believe i still havent managed to fix it :-( :-( . BUT The IT guy is back in work today after two weeks and he's looking at it as we speak.I tried to load the restore disk last weekend and everything appeared to go alright except it still got hung up at mup.sys Thats because he put a Dell motherboard in it a couple of years back and i was trying to load an e-machine restore disk (D'uhhhhh)........Will it survive another major surgery.....?????? Tune in next time ....Same Bat time , Same Bat Channel :-) Bogey

Guys The guy in work hasn't had a chance to look at it yet. If he doesn't do it today i'm going to take it home and try again. If i load the restore disk will it wipe out all the information stored on the pc? And will i still be able to get the Net or will i have to load it again? Thanks Bogey

I'm doing this the wrong way round as i've already been for help , but anyways Hello all. I'm from Ireland and glad to have somewhere to come for help......Even though i think i may have killed my PC yesterday :-/ . Anyway thanks straight off to all who've trying to help me out in the XP section......It's much appreciated. And i hope my next posting will come from my ressurected home PC. Bogey

Well guys I went home last night armed with my 10 page printout on how to solve my problem. Unfortunately i couldn't even get into safe mode ---- which i could the previous night. So i gave up on it and asked one of the IT guys in work to have a look for me----except he's not in today GRRrrrrrrrrr . Anyway it's probably best to let someone competent have a looksee and give it a good clean up. I'll get back to you if and when i get it sorted with any info he tells me. Thanks again Bogey

Eeeeeerm ......Not sure WM .Do you mean the system set up disk ?. If so it's probably in the drawer at home.....I wouldnt have thrown it out.

Thanks Wolfey I've just tried reading through that link and it looks pretty complicated.....I dont understand the jargon either so chances are i'll be back on again. The ABC of what to do would be handy just in case. Thanks Bogey

Man ...you guys are goood Thats exactly what it says......So i'll print off that sheet and see if i can make any progress later . Thanks

Press the Y key and then the Enter key. Then restart your computer. It should run a check disk during the next start up. If it does not then let us know. Maybe thats why it's scrolling through on the black window??????? Because i pressed Y and then each time i now switch on this happens.....But again it seems to freeze.

Guys Sorry for the delay in answering. I couldn't get back in to the pc last night....it's fighting me. I dont know what i've done wrong but when i try to "Start>Run>type in chkdsk /r " it says it cant because volume is in use by another process ????? I tried going into safe mode and going into control panel and tried to start cleaning up the disc from in there. Now it wont start in normal mode AT ALL ...im only getting the white writing scrolling down the black screen and then it freezes....sorry guys i seem to have made my problems even worse :/ I'm in from my work pc now so at least i'll be able to keep an eye on the thread today. Bogey

The only high one there seems to be "system idle process" - it's jumping from 70 - 90%

With just this site open it's jumping around from 7-10-19-30% If i click on "show process from all users" it seems to jump up more ---32-50% Thanks

Yeah ...i think it was on it a couple of years back. Then th PC broke and one of the IT guys in work put a (motherboard ?) from a dell in and it worked fine after that but MS Office is not still on it.......at least i dont thinks so! could it be a leftover file?

Hey Im new to the forum but it's nice to know there's help out there , thanks in advance. Here's the problem.My computer seems to be operating on a different timeline to me , it's like its working in a parrallel universe where everything is slowed down by a factor of ten. It took me 20 minutes to register here. It;s windows xp home version thats all i know , i've got it about 4/5 years. I did some reading up and the registry seemed a good place to start looking at it. I downloaded http://www.freeregistryfix.com and it zipped through "initial parameters" but when it goes to "file types" it goes about two third up and gets stuck at this. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ppa.ppa (at this stage it has found 5 problems) It sticks here and doesn't move on. ( i left it for 5 hours at one stage) Any ideas what could be causing this ? how to fix it? and is it likely to be the cause of my slooooooow PC?. Thanks again Bogey BTW : Even though i've only got dial up , it's not just the internet thats slow but also the pc itself.Boot up takes about 12 minutes