DId you disable the onboard sound in your BIOS before installing the sound card? (Looks like you have an SB Live! or an Audigy, judging by the em10k driver)

You must disable the onboard sound in...

I love my Logitech lol...

And I'm with ya on the Mouse Drivers, I don't use the provided drivers, and never have. I suffer everytime I try using those junk Intellipoint drivers, and Logitech's...

It'd be nice if that helped, heheh. :)

I'm sure Dell has them, but if you can't find them, find out what chipset your motherboard is based on, (Last I knew, Dell usually used Intel chipsets), and...

What kind of mice? PS2? USB? Have you tried switching from one type to another?

Are your mice fairly high resolution mice? (Cheap low res mice will, especially at high res screens like what you...

What kind of mouse? If it is cordless, it has only been fairly recently that cordless mice have come into their own for FPS style gaming.

If it's not that, there are a lot of things to consider,...

Sounds like it's set to a refresh rate or video mode that the thing can't display to me.

Boot it all the way up, when it's done, hit Alt-F4, and hit the U key after. Do this a few times. If your...

I agree with Mike here, you need to wipe your hard disk, and reinstall fresh.

There are good instructions for this proceedure available here, courtesy of a resident expert, Catweazle:
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I'm pasting this from the Shoot the Messenger you used posted, you should read it more closely:

"Windows Messenger Service

The first thing to understand is that the Windows Messenger Service is...

It's possible there were problems at Microsoft's end, as I've seen that happen. If it keeps happening after the next few days, I'd suspect it's on your end. Until then, I wouldn't worry too much....

Good info.

For the record though, Shoot the Messenger has nothing to do with Microsoft (Windows) Messenger IM client, (msmsgs.exe), but rather has to do with the Windows Messenger Alerter...

Most excellent, this one goes into my vault. Nice work, Antioed. :)

Sounds like you have a sticky key, (tab key maybe?). Either that, or you have built in 'funtions' in that keyboard and its driver that are doing things you'd rather it didn't.

Look in your control...

Heheh, so you're all set now?

Wonderful, that should solve this one, Catweazle. :)

Yup, the bit about it opening with Outlook is true even with the latest version, which is why mine's been renamed for over 3 years now. It also opens if you hit Hotmail's website, (odd that).
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First though, check your boot.ini file to be sure the paths are pointing to the right places, as a corrupted boot.ini will cause this.

Heh, her post points out she deleted the file with Easyclean. I had already pointed out the possible corrupted boot.ini, but it seemed moot since she knew she deleted it. lol

Do you have software called Callisto Newsreader/Bulletin Board Browser installed? That's the only program I can find with the name Callisto. Lots of LSP's are spyware/adware etcetera, but this may...

Great! Take care now. :)

You seem to have installed it to a different folder than your original XP was in. You should have formatted first, to remove all data that was there. You are now in a bad position, you can probably...

This topic has gotten somewhat muddy, so I'm going to rehash it here for clarity, hope no one minds:

The guy has:

Microsoft Messenger IM client.

MSN Messenger IM client.

(Windows...

Information on the Soundmax website shows you must go back to the manufacturer of your system, OR the maker of the motherboard if you don't own a system by Dell, Compaq or similar.

Who made your...

What sound card? Have you downloaded the latest drivers from the manufacturer, (or from the maker of your system)?

Didn't happen on mine, I had no problem renaming it after killing the process, but either way, I don't think any of this will help him, as it's been pointed out that if he kills Microsoft Messenger,...

Really? Can't do that in mine, wish I could. (Maybe it needs to be USB 2.0? I'm stuck with USB 1.x).

My only other thought on this is a seriously (SERIOUSLY) fragmented hard disk. Have you defragged lately?

A pleasure, glad to have helped you get sorted out. Take care. :)

Good find, thanks for sharing that, dlh6213!

You should add that to the SP2 sticky topic, dlh6213, that's a useful little tip you got. :)

Heheh, which is what he said he did at the start, which is why we got into less 'standard' ways of shutting Messenger down. He's not talking about Windows Messenger, the alerter service, rather...

Not sure about the latter, but 180 Search Assistant is spyware/adware.

Again, you'd be better off posting for this stuff in the Security forum, I am not an expert on this spyware stuff (yet).
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No problem. Hope it stays gone, heheh.

Actually, I'll be surprised if he finds it in MSCONFIG, because if you tell it not to run in it's options as he said he did, it removes itself from MSCONFIG's list, so it shouldn't even be there. I...

WSEM Update is 'Internet Optimizer' (some call it Windows Optimizer), and is spyware or malware. You need to ask in the Security forum for help removing it. I'd recommend starting at the following...

I kind of thought that MSN Messenger might use Windows Messenger, if you're right, you've just confirmed that.

You could, but I don't think that would remove V5, though.

Do you have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed? V5 should install on your first visit to Windows Update after SP2 gets installed. V5...

I think both those programs are 'possesors', meaning your PC is possessed by them. I don't run either for that reason. :p

Anyway, if you hit Control-Alt-Del you'll pull up Task Manager. You should...

You've verified that that floppy drive can read disks? And that that floppy is readable?

When you boot the second machine, does the floppy drive on that machine light up, then does the light go...

Hmm, you actually made the bootdisk? You don't just copy the file you downloaded to the disk, did you? That won't work, if that's what you did. You must actually put a blank formatted floppy into...

Put your old hard drive back in your old machine, (I hope you still have it, and that you can boot with it!), then turn OFF whatever password protection you turned on, so that the files are...