xp shuts down



xp Home shuts down by itself and has to be reset, sometimes more than once before it will reboot. I have deleted documents, ran the disk defragmenter, and disk clean up, have blew out the dust in and around the fan. Nothing has worked so far. Help!

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  • Re: Security Update Disables DiskDefragmenter
    ... > Now when I try to run Disk Defragmenter, I get the error message that ... > In Task Manager the only Process running is System Idle. ... > Is there a workaround for this, so that I can run Disk Defragmenter? ... please reboot and CHKDSK will run on reboot. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: Security Update Disables DiskDefragmenter
    ... > Now when I try to run Disk Defragmenter, I get the error message that ... > In Task Manager the only Process running is System Idle. ... > Is there a workaround for this, so that I can run Disk Defragmenter? ... please reboot and CHKDSK will run on reboot. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)
  • Re: OT - slow explorer
    ... If you only have 2 GB free, you need to unload at least 3 GB before XP's ... Disk Defragmenter can run - and, you'll find that to be your first best ... Reboot into "Safe Mode". ... By using "Safe Mode" for the defrag the process will go noticiably faster. ...
    (rec.crafts.metalworking)
  • Re: disk defragmenter XP
    ... This version of disk defragmenter does not support running ... (Have successfully run Error-checking) ... Reboot - try first thing after the reboot. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)

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