RE: XP Boots Weird

My problem is that when i turn on the plug to my computer the harddrive
starts up by it self,then the cmos table comes on and i have to enable
surtain things before i can boot up its driving me nuts what am i doing wrong?

"Larry" wrote:

> Ever since I installed XP Home Edition on this computer, it boots up with
> problems.
>
> It always starts 2 copies of Windows Explorer. I can't find anywhere to
> stop this from happening. It must be in the registry.
>
> My Internet Explorer cannot be launched by clicking on a link in my Eudora
> email client or my news reader. All it does is go to About:blank. I have
> searched for any hijacker that might cause this and came up empty each time.
> I suspect it is another registry entry causing this problem too.
>
> If anyone has any ideas how to fix these issues, I'm willing to try just
> about anything.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
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