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Good point - Thanks. I was just curious as it is quite a large file and I didn't just want it sitting on my machine not being used - I'd rather delete it and retain the HD space. But I have no idea where it mught be?! Also, will I have to go to the window update site and download it there or...

Hi all, Please can someone give me some advice here... I recently tried to upgrade my XP pro with service pack 2. The windows update icon appeared in my system tray and i began to download. However, after the downloading finished my computer suffered a crash. After rebooting my machine...

Hi there, Any advice or tips on this would be most welcome - I've been scratching my head for ages... Sometimes when booting windows XP pro I get to the welcome to windows page and then the computer restarts itself. This may happen 2, 3 or more times before I get into windows. However...

Hi All, Thanks for eveyones help. I now have more information... Firstly I tried to install Ad-Aware SE to detect and remove any conflicting spyware but unfortunately it kept stalling and couldn't complete the scan (it stopped at the system condition checking). Then I noticed that it had...

Hi All, Please can someone offer some advice... I've been having a couple of start up issues with my system - so under the belief that it could be a some form of spyware conflicting with my system I downloaded and installed Ad-Aware SE. Unfortunately this caused more problems - firstly when...

:) I'll get a new firewall. I will also download ad-aware and get that to check my system also - good point. I will let you know how I got on tomorrow. Thanks!

Thanks for your replies :) First of all - yes I have all 4 of the essentials (Norton AV, Spybot and XP firewall)and I have run them all since the problem started and everything seems fine there. When I get home I will check the event viewer (currently using work computer) - I haven't checked...

Hi, Please can someone offer a novice some advive... Lately my computer has been loading up to the 'Welcome to Windows' blue page and then reseting itself and rebooting. This can often happen 2 or 3 times before it actually manages to load into winodows and when it does I get the message -...

The file was written on the same computer - before a fatal crash which meant I had to format the drive. So unfortunately I can't do that. I just wondered if there was anything I could do to the actual Works programme to stop it from crashing?

Hi there, I have a slight problem with my MS Works. Whenever I try and open a saved file it crashes my computer (blue screen). I have tried opening the same files on other computers and they open fine. I think it must be a problem with my MS Works itself. I have tried uninstalling it and...

Thanks, but I have tried Access and with no luck. It just says that this file can not be opened with Access. The same happens when I try and open it with Excel. Any other suggestions?

Hi please can someone help... I have a file which ends in the extension .wdb I think this is a works database file. However, whenever i try and open it with ms works it crashes my computer?!? - I get the warning this is read only then I get the blue screen of death. Then I have to reset. Can...

Excellent - thanks again Wolluf. I'm still not sure whether I should purchase Norton Ghost though. The reason I want to buy it is so as I can clone my hard drive and use the cloned version as a backup if my master fails. But I'm thinking that I may be better off using the Windows back up...

Ok thats great - thanks for your help. I'm just wondering though, having 2 identical drives in one computer... will it have boot up problems not knowing which disk to boot from? and/or will I be able to access the cloned drive in windows XP explorer?

Hi, please will you advise me... I intend to purchase Norton Gost 2003 today. Before I do though can I just check a couple of things with you experts... 1) I have 2 physiscal hard drives - using the Norton Clone function I wish to Clone my master drive to the Slave drive. When I have done...