Re: Windows XP Home SP3

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Fire Antn <newshoound88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:31:44 -0400

night bird wrote:

Hi There
I Installed Windows XP SP1 and KB936929-SP3, later i installed IE7, but it dont work, what must i do, to get it running???

Two steps that foregot to do before installing the Sevice packs are

1:) Disk CleanUp ( remove all the "garbage" files

2:) Run a through Disk Def rag sessions If need and IMHO highly recommended do multiple def rags at it will speed up your Service pack installation process. An upon successful installation of the service pack(s) in question De fragment you hard drive again and also schedule a chkdsk at boot by start> run . chkdsk /f and answering yeas to the do you whish to all appropriate questions tghe /f at the end of chkdsk tells checkdsk to preform a scan of all attached hard drives nest time you boot and fixes anty preblems that it sees.
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