[Toad0789]

This thing came into my machine. I understand it is not a virus. Anyway, whenever I use widows explorer it locks up my computer and i ahve to go to the task manager and "end the process" to free the machine. How can I get rid of this Dr Watson bug?

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do you have service pack 2 installed? If not it's wise to update it. If you do have it installed, I suggest you go to START->RUN and type in 'sfc /scannow'. You will need your xp disc in the drive to do this as it will check all your windows files and make sure they are correct.

If that doesn't work, you can always do a 'repair' installation of windows xp

[Fenor]

do you have service pack 2 installed? If not it's wise to update it. If you do have it installed, I suggest you go to START->RUN and type in 'sfc /scannow'. You will need your xp disc in the drive to do this as it will check all your windows files and make sure they are correct.

If that doesn't work, you can always do a 'repair' installation of windows xp

[EMCguy]

DO NOT UPDATE TO SERVICE PACK2 UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOUR SYSTEM IS CLEAN. MICROSOFT WARNS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO CAUSE SEVERE PORBLEMS THAT WAY.

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