Go to these two online virus scanners.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Also unhook your other hdd's till you get this fixed so it doesn't...

first go into control panel - system turn off system restore.

download Hijackthis and post log.

http://www.filecluster.com/download/software/hijackthis.zip

Norton isn't a very good virus...

Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT

Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Internet Settings \ Zones \ 0

In the right-pane, double-click the value...

LOL I am trying to catch up to you in post.

But yea mm4c3k if you format you will lose everything.get the OS loaded on the C if H is where your DATA is and then access it and copy it to C before...

First are you wanting to keep two partitions one the drive or are you wanting to merge them into one?

if you are wanting 2 just go to control panel
if in category veiw got o performance and...

Try double click at the top border area of task manager.

Thanks You,
I am glad it helped.

Get this and try it.

http://www.diskdatarecovery.net/task-manager-has-been-disabled-by-your-administrator

Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
Navigate to this branch: User Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options / Remove Task Manager

...

An update isn't a fresh install,also if you do update and you put the XP update disc in it isn't gonna ask for the 2000 disc to do the update.who ever told you that doesn't know what there talking...

An upgrade would work but sometimes it will give troubles due to the fact it just changes a few files to make the update.

it is always better to do a fresh full install.

You need to go to windows updates and update your windows.

Also you need to get a virus protector.

The reason you get the above message when the computer shuts down is you are using a FAT32...

Anti virus don't use norton it is a resource hog.

I use McAfee but AVG some people say is good.here is a link to a free download.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Sorry Linux but that was as about as helpful as that could be.

Actually 128 is the bare minumum and 512 is the recommended to get the performance.256 will do pretty good till you start adding...

Add more Ram.

You very welcome.

Change your page file size


Open System in Control Panel.
On the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and under Virtual memory...

try this

RESOLUTION
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