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I am running XP Home with SP2. Recently I have experienced a problem that
when I try to start defragmenter, task manager or device manager (and there
could be other) the application screen flashes and then closes immediately.
I have been running SP2 since November and this problem has come up only in
the last 2-3 weeks.
I have run both spyware and virus scan and the problems did not seem to be
there.
Thinking that some XP files are corrupt I did an upgrade install of XP Home
with SP2 again and I still have the same problem. My next step would be to
do a clean load of XP but want to see if there is something else I should
attempt first.
I am running XP Home with SP2. Recently I have experienced a problem that
when I try to start defragmenter, task manager or device manager (and there
could be other) the application screen flashes and then closes immediately.
I have been running SP2 since November and this problem has come up only in
the last 2-3 weeks.
I have run both spyware and virus scan and the problems did not seem to be
there.
Thinking that some XP files are corrupt I did an upgrade install of XP Home
with SP2 again and I still have the same problem. My next step would be to
do a clean load of XP but want to see if there is something else I should
attempt first.