Dell pc, 4 years old!

Browntoa

no does not need Xp pro...lol

was too lazy to look for other pictures

me bad

99 time out of 100 it does not ask for the Cd.....

it's XP home that you are after

aaroncaz

Browntoa wrote: »

no does not need Xp pro...lol

was too lazy to look for other pictures

me bad

99 time out of 100 it does not ask for the Cd.....

it's XP home that you are after

yes ive got xp home, thats what came with pc, ive cc cleaner as well.

tr3mor

Might be worth buying another stick of ram too. Presumably if your PC is 4 years old it won't have very much. It's a dead cheap and easy way to get more speed from your computer.

aaroncaz

how much and where can i buy this?

tr3mor

Firstly go to https://www.crucial.com/uk. Use their system scanner software to tell you what type of and how much ram you have at the moment.

Then you can either buy the ram directly from them, but it's pretty expensive. Or come back here and we'll point you in the right direction.

albertross_2

You haven't really said what the problem is, what are your current symptoms if any?

aaroncaz

Hmm, just sometimes i seem to get a corrupted file, and on start-up, it repairs it!!

albertross_2

Do you know which file, is it the same file every time? How often does it happen, does it happen after you haven't shutdown properly (after a program crash or machine hang for example).

Running chkdsk c: /F/R and rebooting should check the filesystem for corruptions.

aaroncaz

no i don't know which file, it happens every now and then, i'd say a month in between or more!! I had to that CH thing the other day!!

aaroncaz

Donnie wrote: »

I think you may have run ChkDisk before. If not; http://www.ferris.edu/tac/SoftwareHardware/00027000.cfm

Run it when you have something else to do.

If all is fine, then I can send you an XP Pro disc in order for you to repair your installation with the application Browntoa suggested.

There is an option to do a full reinstall, if necessary. But that's another story.

right ive set pc to do this!!