Is clean installing windows XP free?

October 27, 2009

I have the windows media centre edition CD sp2, (i think 2005) And my computer is really messed up I can’t even use stuff in the controll panel.
I have a working version of XP on the computer, and the CD. Will the fresh install be free? Or will I have to buy a new CD?
And How long will the install take? I’ve got a p4 3ghz, 1 gig ram, gotta formatt whole 200 gig hdd and setup 4 users.

Thank You very much! My computer is almost about to crash and I don’t want that to happen. (i’ve considered linux, but its not my computer)

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Frequent Crashes.?

October 19, 2009

I have just reformatted my windows and installed and now it is run on win xp sp2. But my computer would crash/freeze completely all of a sudden like once every hour or so. I also have antivirus program BitDefender 2008 installed and have just ran its registry scan/cleaner. I’m now trying hard to find out the cause and to fix this. I was thinking, could the registry scan/cleaner have messed up the win xp’s registry and thus causing these crashes? Also I’ve noticed every time I shutdown/logoff windows, “spool.exe” would have trouble closing and I would always have to force it to “end now”.

why does using my scanner clog up my memory and cause my computer to crash?

October 1, 2009

When I use my Cannon scanner with my Dell laptop I can scan about 13 images before the computer crashes and won’t allow any more scans.

My standard specs for scanning are:
Tiff file type
300 dpi resolution
output = 8 inches wide
greyscale

I alwaysI have to reboot. I have deleted the temporary internet files and done a disk clean up (Windows XP), but it still will crash.

Are there other settings I can use on the computer so it doesn’t hold on to the temporary files?

Is that what’s making it crash?

Why does my computer crash and reboot after I installed windows xp?

August 24, 2009

I installed windows xp home edition on an older computer(emachines, 366mhz, 128 ram) and now it crashes constantly. Sometimes I get the blue screen of death. It always says there is a different reason for the crash though. Other times it just reboots. I have tried registry cleaner programs but they seem to have made the problem worse. My computer only crashes occasionally if I use one program at a time. Using morpheus, winamp, and windows media player seem to increase the frequency of the crashes. Maybe my computer shouldn’t be running windows xp? But is there anything I can do to make my computer run smoothly?
Windows xp needs 128mb to run, so my ram should be good enough.

My computer crashes every 5 minutes and i cant use it to do anything now. What do i do?

August 22, 2009

The problem started yesterday. My computer was doing perfectly fine but then it crashed while running some program. so i had to perform a hard shutdown and restart the comp. the computer was still working fine after that one time but the program was buggy and kept crashing and i had to keep doing the hard shutdown. now times this whole scenario by 30 cause i shut it down nearly that many times from all the crashes. but now my comp wont even last 5 minutes before crashing and this is with the program not even running. i uninstalled it and same thing, i get a crash after 5 minutes. and booting up takes a long time in some parts and even still it doesnt always turn on correctly, it freezes in boot up aswell. even in bios it will freeze. so now im stuck. i tried to reinstall vista and it froze in the middle of reinstallation and then i ran the thing again and finished it up but its still crashing. so im guessing the motherboard got ruined because if it was power supply it would shut down after the crash wouldnt it? and its probably not software cause i completely reset the comp and reinstalled vista and i even tried switching wireless cards and mouse/keyboard. i also ran hp diagnostics tools and it says harddrive memory and cpu passed all the tests.
so pleeeaaase help meee. i cant use this thing without it freezing up every 5 minutes. i actually havnt even been able to get past the initial time setup pages and stuff when you reinstall vista. (using a dif. comp)