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From: "Robbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: Infrequent and Irregular wWindows Lockups
Kylde,
Ran scannow and no bad report, ran Panda and had 2 infected files, Panda
disinfected. Ran Ad-Aware SE, clean. Updated Panda ran again, clean. Ran
I can't think very well when it is my own computer involved. Here is a
solution I should have thought of.
If you have an extra hard drive or can borrow an empty one, do a clean
install of Windows XP on it. You can test up to 30 days without activation.
If you can find a good Windows based burn in test and run it on a clean
install of Windows on another hard drive, you can get a good idea of whether
your problem is software or hardware related. I should have done this with
my computer. There is one rare exception to this test. Your problem could be
hardware related (your hard drive) and your Windows installation would catch
the blame.
This idea is my answer to all who want to be reasonably sure their problem
is software related before they format their hard drive and reinstall
Windows. In my opinion a person spends less time formatting and reinstalling
than they spend doing a major cleanup job that may or may not fix their
problem. I realize those who repair Windows do not agree.
Chuck
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