Hard Drive is about 50% full and no messages 'Low On Memory'. Thanks for further suggestions and I will try starting in Safe Mode and the Mystring...
Nope, we aint fixed it yet folks. Half an hour tonight with hard drive sounding very busy and PC extremely, and I mean extremely, slow. Can...
Thanks robcrombie. E is a separate hard drive with two partitions, The 'E' partition has most of my non O/S data and apps on it and the second...
Okay all, thanks for your continued interest. I intend to try just one or two of your ideas at a time, that way we will know what, if anything,...
Thanks very much to you all for suggestions, youv'e given me plenty to get my teeth into there. As I said, I don't think it can be anti virus or...
For the first 20 to 30mins after start up my desktop PC is virtually unusable it is so slow but once it gets through this stage it is fine. I can...
Hi Goddez Many, many thanks, it's all sorted. I soon got the XP Zip file issue sorted by following your instructions and then the MSCOMCTL.OCX...
Thanks folks but please bear with me. Started to follow the route suggested by Goddez1 only to find I've lost the capability to open Zip files....
Thanks for reply Miz. I'm not too sure that I understand the difference between the Command line window you refer to and the Run box. What I...
I have just downloaded a small program 'MAD frontend.exe' but when I try to run it I get message - 'Component MSCOMCTL.OCX or one of it's...
Thanks for that Dude. I had read the thread the other day but good of you to point it out. It all got a bit complicated for me but it sounds as...
Hi Dude, Just to say that am not having much luck with Samsung diagnostic tool. Have burnt the disc o.k. and it boots up but half way...
Yes, I can confirm that registry has equal Dos Devices and Volume entries and just to explain that I used to have 'A' drive but it went bust so...
PHEW !! That took some courage but crossed fingers and cleaned out the mounted devices but, unfortunately, still no improvement but no harm...
Sorry again Dude. You mean ALL entries i.e. including the ones listed as \??\Volume, yes ??. The default value is showing as 'Value not set'
Sorry Dude but I just want to make sure I know what I'm doing. Have got to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices alright and I'm seeing some...
Thanks Dude, No luck I'm afraid. Ran PTEDIT32 and got excited because BOOT number was showing 00 so changed it to 80 as suggested then, just to...
Hi Dude. I'm back again. Have downloaded XXClone and tried to get going on it but, unfortunately, have soon run into problems. It is not...
Thanks again, I like the sound of XXclone and will download and will have a look. Just to say that I have other committments coming up over next...
Many thanks Surferdude2, I'll have a look at XXclone and get back to you. What, briefly is the difference between Imaging and Cloning because I...
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