colinm

thanks all for the help! wolfey, sorry, i meant i did a repair rather than a full reinstall of windows. jelly bean, yeah i followed that previously (most internet help pointed towards uni sites which said similar things). is it safe to delete the 'temp' folder in application data? i read it might mess things up. tootech, i couldn't find anything, but the folk that do viruses are no doubt smarter than me! roddy, cheers, i saw that thread i think, hoping to avoid wiping everything out, but i'm backing everything up just in case. thanks for your time everyone.

hi, wondered if anyone had any advice on this, i'm getting an error message when i try and turn off my computer saying my profile storage space has been exceeded. i've dealeated everything i can which i know is safe, but it's still too big. i've searched the web, which hasn't provided a solution but suggests it's a problem with policy settings, but not being that well versed i'm having trouble figuring this out myself, sorry. i run xp, and this has occured since some general problems mean i had to do a partial reinstall. i frequently get the blue screen crashes, don't know if this is related or due to the fact i have to turn the power off to close the computer down. some sites (including this one) mention a programme called "Poledit.exe" but this isn't recognised when i input it to the run tab. as suggested in a relevant thread here, i tried the mmc/ add group policy snap in thing, but there's no group policy in the available snap ins list any thoughts would be great! thanks, colin