Re: XP Home Instability & Odd Behavior

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Hi Guys,

>> Thanks much for the reply and link. It'll probably be Wednesday
>> before I'll have time to try this out, but I'm hopeful that this will
>> do it. I actually gave some thought to creating a new User Profile,
>> but didn't follow-up on it.
>>
>> I'll repost when I know if this fixes it or not.
>>
>> Best,
>
> Yes, please do. As Rock's mentioned it's possible that you're infested
> with malware. Checking in safe mode with the latest definitions and
> scanning with multiple vendor applications is one way to ensure that
> you're 99% confident that you're clean. (There's no such thing as 100%
> certainty, that's a myth, if the PC is connected to the 'net at all AND if
> anyone other than yourself has access and capability of knowing what's
> installed with each application.) I'm rather curious as to the results of
> this and hope that you're able to figure it out.

Well, just completed the operation, and so far, so good. I created the 2
new User Accounts, both with Admin privileges. Logged once into what would
be my daughter's New Logon, switched to the other, copied the appropriate
files from the old to the new Logon, and everything seems stable. Quick
Launch remains intact after reboot, all icons are shown correctly, and no
Explorer or other OS crashes.

I went ahead and installed TweakUI to automate Logon to her new account, as
XP defaulted to loading the old one. I also went ahead and deleted the
original problematic logon, and its files, to clean up.

Thanks again for the help. Will repost if problems recur, but hopefully you
were correct, that this was just a Profile corruption.

One follow-up question: a few months ago I installed a Wireless Router
(LinkSys WR54G), having previously used a hub/switch, and so now have a
hardware firewall in place. I'm inclined to not reinstall ZoneAlarm Free,
certainly not Ver.6.x which has quite a few problems according to multiple
posts at ZoneLab's forums. Am I putting this system at risk without a
software firewall? Or should I just enable Windows Firewall?

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