Tarun

Anything red or yellow under health?

Try popping in your Windows XP cd and doing a repair install. This is a prime example of why not to use nLite.

Dell will either tell you that they can ship you a new hard drive with the restore information if you still have your warranty in effect. If not, they'll bill you for either a new hard drive of recovery DVDs. They're idiots for making this recovery partition crap.

Give Dial-a-fix a try.

From Google Lots of results that pretty much verify everything we have been saying.

There is an option to hide it in your network setup. One moment and I'll find it for you. Okay got it. Just go to your Network Connections via Control Panel and right click your Wireless Connection. Go to Properties and under the General tab there is a "Show icon in notification area when connected" and "Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity". Make sure both are unchecked, then click OK. They should be gone. I can further verify later today on my wireless desktop across the room after work.

Try out HDTune and tell us if there is anything highlighted in yellow or red.

It's just a spambot, nothing out of the ordinary.

Use a soft cloth and rubbing alcohol to clean the cds.

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CD-R is read only. Copy the contents to your hard drive and then scan it.

Think I'm White & Nerdy.

I believe it may be due to them being larger in size and they can also be distracting from the worthwhile content of the posts. These are my thoughts on what I believe are the reasons animated avatars are prohibited on MSFN. xper, Martin L or one of the other crew can verify if this is true or not.

I actually found that more annoying that funny.

Use avast, excellent free scanner.

If the hard drive is dead, you'd have to install to a new HDD. If you have a spare machine, simply swap the hard drive for the duration of the install.

If you work in the IT field, then you would know how critical services and a fully functional computer can be. Ripping out services and other needed dependencies as tweakers and nLiters often do, causes a mass amount of errors to accumulate in the Event Logs.

How about the virus name and what scanner(s) you've used.

Your screenshot of the task manager does not reflect RAM and pagefile usage. Windows Memory Management. I suggest you read it. Also, just curious; but what is your technical expertise? Are you an "at home user" who tweaks, etc. Or do you actually work in the field of tech support, computer repair or a similar related service?

If there may be hard drive errors, burn a cd and check with DFT by using an Advanced scan. Doesn't take long to scan either

Exactly Zxian, very well said. Thank you.

I'd try installing the OS plain, no modifications or slipstreamed service packs. Then just update normally.

Try Dial-a-fix

Not true at all, there are numerous patches and various improvements in SP2 that really improves the speed and performance of the OS. There's an amazing amount of stability and control in Windows XP SP2. The only blue screens I see are the SysInternals screensaver I have. A lot of people talk about disabling services (bad) or removing them with nLite (worst thing you can do to your OS). You should not mess with your services, ever. Leave them at the defaults. People whine about how they have all these services running, but when they're idle they take up no RAM or CPU. I'd love to quote the MSDN article, but I can't find it at the moment. The basic summary is that disabling a service that wasn't doing anything frees absolutely no resources. You should never disable the error reporting service. Error reporting allows the end-user to obtain information after "serious error" crash dumps (STOP errors/BSoDs). It also provides the user with feedback if an issue has already been resolved. Example: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894391 I had submitted an error report about this crash one day, and got no response back. The problem kept happening, and on multiple computers, so a few days later, I submitted it again, but this time, error reporting took me to a page stating that the cause was unknown but it research was in progress. Four days later, I submitted it again, and it took me to a page with the patch and the error never happened again. There is going to be a program soon for techs to use that will reset the services to their proper values. It's a pain to have a customer complain about something they broke. Example: SSL and Windows Updates. These are dependent on the Automatic Updates (WUAUServ), Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS), and Cryptographic Service (CryptSVC) along with numerous DLL files. Leave your services alone. People often blame the OS for breaking when a program doesn't work. But that's because of "tweakers" who disable needed services or remove them with nLite. Don't tweak, don't use nLite and don't remove or disable your services. Your computer will be in a lot better shape and your bill for tech support/repairs will be considerably less!

Provide the error code and as much information about the page fault error so it can be researched.