After deleting a game demo numerous things have been buggered up on my PC
1: IE7 has a script error now i've changed to Firefox3 no problem
2: System Restore failed to appear (empty dailog box) but now has fixed itself
When restored to an earlier working date IE7 wouldn't bring up the toolbar and wouldn't show what website i was on in the taskbar
3: Search Companion has disappeared and comes up with a file missing error.

I don't use Search companion very often but don't know if this will affect anything else.

Does anyone have a good guide to repairing XP?
Please make sure it's nice and simple as ,when it comes to PCs i'm a bit simple

cheers

 

Just dump the XP cd in the drive when it runs select repair/ reinstall

(thats if it still does it these days)


Dont blame me if you loose valuable data / piccys/ **** etc



mart

 

Buying an external hard drive to remove all stuff that i want to keep

Had a look for a guide and found this.

Repair Windows XP - Boot From the Windows XP CD

 

I would back up what you need - Format the drive and do a fresh install.

 

Cheers Pete i've just done a repair job and it has worked (as far as i can see) but i have backed everything up and may do the fresh install.
What i can't understand though is why uninstalling a demo has caused the various problems i've had

 

What was the demo?

 

Settlers 2 10th anniversary downloaded from Ubisofts website.

also now i'm getting ripply scrolling on both Firefox and IE7
Smooth scrolling is ticked on both browsers SOLVED updated drivers.
I'm using a wireless mouse/keyboard from Chicony

 

Sounds like,

Graphics card on the way out (they have a crap life expectancy)
Ram chip on the way out.


Mart