Update .... one week later Ok, its now a week later and I'm still running ok with no problems ..... so it seems like the standard Windows defrag...
A possible resolution... I am sorry that it has taken me so long to respond to the various suggestions regarding my thread but frankly it has...
Thanks for this suggestion but I'm very reluctant to use this kind of "fix all" repair tool as in my experience they can cause more harm than...
After a few more hours following the various helpful suggestions, here is what I've found so far: Memtest86: runs clean for hours Hitachi/IBM...
Thanks Steve, I'll give that a try too. Regards, Pauk
Thanks again Pete. I'll give these suggestions a try just as soon as I can find the time and will report back here. Regards, Paul
Thanks Pete, I really appreciate all these ideas and suggestions. Sadly though, I've already tried most of them. I went through that Microsoft...
Recovering a corrupt registry Thanks Pete - but I've tried this process. It recovers the registry ok, but as soon as I reboot the PC the next...
Every time I reboot my PC (running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3) I get a blue screen with the following message: Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry...
Hi, I have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium and AOL 9.0 VR. When I try to log-on with AOL it runs through the usual start-up process,...
Audio problem cured Following the advice received on this forum I finally got around to downloading and installing a new audio driver from...
Thanks for the additional responses. It sounds like Windows Update could well be the casue of the problem so I'll certainly try downloading the...
Thanks PeteC. I'll try the latest driver from the Realtek site as you suggest. By the way, can you control whether Windows Update updates device...
I'm having problems with the audio from my Realtek AC97 device. I've checked all the usual things in the Device Manager and Control Panel and...
great, thanks very much !
Hi SD2, Thanks for that extra utility BootIniEdit.exe. It sounds very useful - only problem is I don't have a floppy drive and the utility won't...
That's great, thanks again for all your help SD2.
one further thought on this... is it possible that I ,might have caused the machine to boot from D: when I used the "FIXBOOT" command in the...
Thanks again SD2. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try renaming the boot.ini on the D: drive - guess I might just leave things alone since its...
Excellent info, thanks SD2 ! Now, to show my ignorance perhaps..... I have a PC with two partitions, C: and D: Both partitions have copies of...
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