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Hi, my name is Hope and not a newbie but right now I feel so dumb!!

I was cleaning up my second computer with XP on it and went to empty the recycle bin. It told me some of the files I was about to delete were being used by Windows.

I tried to cancel the action and it told me to insert the Disk 2 of XP. Well, my XP only came with one disk. I tried to do a system restore and then once that was complete, it would not let me get in the recycle bin to restore the files that were lost.

I even did a scan disk for errors to see if I could find the problem. My computer is now soooo slow and takes forever to get on IE. This machine is usually such a powerfully fast machine and I have 2 gb of Ram so I cannot figure out how to restore this to its fast speed again.

Any ideas?

Hope

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You could try using the system file checker. PUt your XP disk in the drive, open a command prompt and type "sfc /scannow"

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