Re: Windows XP Restore Problems

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From: Kristi (a_at_b.net)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:10:50 -0400

Dee wrote:
> I am starting this post again. I did a re-install of windows Xp becuase I need to keep my partition in tact. Now I can not see my hidden files even when I ask for them be be unjhidden, I can not set a background images even using the images that came with windows Xp pro, the view when I go into start on the left hand side no longer shows anything. I can not get a good degragment I used windows and perfect disks. I have my school software, test, and .NET on this partition. Some of my applications are acting strange also.
>
> Dee

It sounds like your system is mostly choked - not enough free space on the
hard drive.
Assuming you use IE, go to Internet Options, General tab:
click Delete cookies.
click delete files.
change History Days to keep pages in history to 0 (zero).
click clear history.

If you have any Norton on your system, click the recycle bin and erase the
norton protected files. Then erase the rest of the files in the recycle
bin.

Then see if any of this has changed your available space.

While installing Norton may sound like a great idea, if your system is
already chocked, this will totally level it as it is very muh a disk and
cpu pig. Try Avast! antivirus instead.
hth
Kristi (ignore my reply to your other thread)(I'll use this thread) 

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