Re: Checking and 'repairing' a Win XP installation

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:37:35 GMT, Lobster wrote:

> I'm sure that under Win98 (Win95?) there was a utility of some sort
> which you could run to check that the windows installation was still OK,
> ie it checked for corrupted dll's etc and prompted you to re-install
> them. Is there a similar facility under XP Home?
>
> I sense my installation has got a bit flaky over time; eg applications
> running slowly; working USB devices someties not being recognised and
> thought the above would be worth a go. If not, then beyond defragging,
> is there any alternative to reformatting and re-installing from scratch
> (ugh)?

Asking a daft question, have you opened task manager to see if your cpu is
running at more or less 100% all the time? It's a bug in WinXP and M$ don't
seem to want to do anything about it.....

Click on a blank portion of the task bar, then on task manager in the
window that opens.

If it is, which processes are taking all the resources? The CPU *should* be
running with a variable commitment of about 3% to 10%, depending on what
you've got running. There are some workarounds, but you need a bit of 'damp
finger in the air' thinking to try and sort out the problem. My probs
weren't covered by any of the published work-arounds, and it turned out to
be a newly added scanner that WinXP wasn't recognising properly at boot up,
so explorer was tying itself in knots trying to instal something that it
couldn't recognise. In the end the solution was to turn off the scanner on
reboot, and then turn it on again....


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the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
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