Try removing recently installed hardware and software.
Try System Restore.

Sure you'll find it here (http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).

I find it great you want to share your knowledge, but for me it wasn't very helpful because of the two following reasons:
-> I did already know this
-> I don't use Windows Vista

Agreed with all above :)

Yeah, it's NEVER recommended to use 2 AVs at the same time as they will interfere with each other, only causing trouble ...

If you can login on your Windows installation try the following:
Click the Start Button > Run > type: 'msconfig' (without the quotes)
In the window which came up select 'Diagnostic Startup' and...

Rather looks like a hardware problem ...
> Consider running a diagnostic memory test/hard drive test ...

Do they all have the same subnetmasker (usually '255.255.255.0') ?

Normally you cannot use DELL Recovery CD's on other computer systems than DELL systems, as DELL verifies it
(something with an OEM-BIOS) ...

But normally you can buy a new recovery cd from HP ...

> Question:


> Answer:


If Vista came pre-installed on your laptop and no recovery disk(s) came with it, there might be a recovery partition somewhere on your hard disk ...

What do you mean with 'Desktop Icons won't load correctly' ?
> Do you mean that the program's shortcuts have wrong icons ?

Maybe this (http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shelliconfix.htm) link is useful...

If you can live with an alternative Office Suite, you could use OpenOffice instead, it's very good (and free:) ) !