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Go into Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Event Viewer. This is where Windows writes all its error messages.
Have a look in the three logs, Application, Event and System and see if there are any nasty messages in there. They are indicated by a red or yellow icon.
The System log is for Windows errors, the Application log is for errors with your own programs.
If you can put details of some of the error messages here we may be able to help.
Many thanks (I think!!! boobesque) for your responses so far.
Gathered some info for you "vehelpfulguy", here goes:
In System: (all dates 2005)
X error 30/8/05 cdrom (about 100 of these!) and warnings ditto.
X error 3/9 DCOM
x error 12/9 service control manager
! warning 14/9 w32 time
In Application:
! warning 4/2 userenv - almost daily
x error 21/2 Application hang
x error 28/2 Application error (category 100)
! warning 27/3 msiInstaller (x 8)
! warning 29/4 msiInstaller (x 6)
x error 29/4 Application hang (x 4)
x error 31/5 microsoft works (x 2)
x error 12/6 Application hang (x 6) Category 101
x error 19/6 application error category none.
If you need any more info please let me know, in the meantime thank you so much for your time.
From your list of errors none of them seem very recent. That is good, if it was a major hardware or software error there would be errors written in there.
You may have a corrupt registry. Windows keeps all its important data in a hidden file called the registry. If this becomes corrupt then all sorts of things can happen.
There is something in XP caled System Restore (on the system tools menu under Accessories). This will take XP back to a previous level.
To be honest I have never used it, but you could try that to see if you can restore to a previosu good version of XP.
It may wipe out some recent changes you have made, but it will be better than a complete reinstal of Windows.