Hi, and thank you in advance to anyone who is able to help as this is the first time I have used the website [apart from the time 30 seconds ago when I wrote this the first time and then it threw me out when I tried to submit it... :) ]
Problem: XP loads all the usual programmes (security package, Skype etc) when it starts up, but then tries to find a programme I deleted and can't, so it starts up Windows Installer.
Background: My PC has been mis-behaving (slow, freezing, crashing etc) so this morning I deleted a load of old documents, photos, files and programmes; ran virus-scan and scandisk; optimised for performance rather than appearance; deleted the image used on the desktop; disabled browser add-ons; and then re-booted. All was fine.
I then looked at the icons appearing in the system tray and found a programme called Citrix which I have never used and don't need but found that it could not be deleted by Add/Remove Programs. So I had tried Zsoft Uninstaller which usually does the trick but that also failed. I then deleted the folder out of Program Files and removed all the shortcuts before re-booting. That was when The Problem appeared. I then went into Registry and deleted the Citrix folders listed there, but when I re-booted the same thing happened again.
Any suggestions??
(I run XP Pro SP3 on an HP Pavillion with 1GB RAM)