What a day of crashing

Only a novice but could do with some help.
I have XP Prof. and have problems with crashing and rebooting,today before it could boot up it crashed and booted up again this happened time and time again,
looked at the event viewer,system, it had problems galore,
redbook,which I thought I had put right by deleting the tick against "digital cd audio for this cd rom etc" then it went worse and came up with a cross against "service control manager" then "DCOM" I n the end I managed to use "Registry Mechanic" it found 9 faults which it repaired
and then I managed to type this,anyone know what the hell's going on?

 

charles--If this started to happen only recently, perhaps a System Restore to a date prior to the start of the problems?
If that does not help, please restate the problems which still exist. I understand some of them have already been fixed.
And tell us what you are doing when you get an error message, if possible, post the exact error message.

P.S. "Redbook" ??

 

This is tonights problems



Details
Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 59
Source: SideBySide
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: MSG_SXS_FUNCTION_CALL_FAIL
Message: %1 failed for %2. Reference error message: %3.

Explanation
A component or manifest could not be activated.

Possible causes include:

The component or manifest depends on another program or component that is not installed.
The manifest contains XML content that is not valid.
The user does not have the correct permissions.


User Action
To resolve this problem, do one or all of the following:

Review the event logs to see whether any related events are logged.
Verify that all dependent components or programs are installed.
Review the XML content, and correct any that is not valid.
Verify that the user has the correct permissions on the computer.



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charles--Side by Side is adware
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.sidebyside.html
Since you have that malware, perhaps (probably?) you have other viruses, spyware, etc.
I suggest you consider the procedure described here
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=37074