Re: XP Repair
- From: GaryG <GaryG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:07:00 -0700
Ken,
OK. I found an old CD-ROM drive and plugged power and signal cables to it.
It reads my CDs ok, but I only have one sound card so I don't think I can
play audio CDs without adding an additional surplus sound card and plugging
it to a surplus set of speakers. So I'm in a position to Win XP
repair-install now.
Could you help me with another question? My Optorite CD/DVD reader-burner
used to play CDs just fine. But I couldn't get DVDs to play, (although I
could burn DVDs to backup my data files). So I installed Roxio's Sonic
CinePlayer DVD Decoder Pack and DVDs started playing as they should.
I didn't think to test CD operations at the time. Does a CD/DVD combo device
typically use the same read/write components (lenses, etc) for CDs and DVDs?
If not, I probably need to clean the CD-specific components. But if they do,
I suspect my problem could be either the CD-related hardware in the device,
device driver, or whatever other software the device uses. (I don't know
quite enough about computers to understand whether a device needs anything
besides its driver to work correctly.) Would you advise replacing my CD/DVD
device with a name-brand that may prove more dependable?
Incidentally, I used %TEMP% to delete files that I may not have been
deleting via the other cleanup methods I've used. I also installed
Microsoft's latest updates as well as SP3. Performance seems to have picked
up a bit. So I don't have a compelling reason to repair-install at this time.
Your opinion? (If it ain't broke, don't fix it?)
--
Gary
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:00:01 -0700, GaryG.
<GaryG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My system (XP Home upgraded from Me 4 years ago) has become slow booting,
extremely slow shutting down, and sluggish otherwise. I've unwisely used
registry cleaners for several years and maybe I've caused the registry to be
part of my problem.
I investigated the possibilty of a repair install using the XP upgrade CD
(have looked at the MikeStevens Web site), but I can't boot from the CD,
Why not? What happens when you try?
nor
can Windows Explorer find anything on it.
You mean that when you don't try to boot from it, it's telling you
that the CD is blank?
If so, either there's something wrong with the CD or your CD drive.
Maybe I have to run setup and
change my boot device order?
If you haven't done that, it's likely that that's why you can't boot
from it. But if you CD drive is incapable of reading something on the
drive, that's also the problem.
Don't understand. Can someone help me get a handle on what I'm missing here?
--
Gary
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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