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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Thanks for the help. What is "hijackthis.exe"??? I'm clueless as to what it is and what it does.
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It's a program that analyzes portions of the registry and HDD and produces a log file with the results. It's useful as an intial screen to see what is running/lurking on your PC. It also allows you to remove items from the scan log directly, but this should only be done if you are sure what you are doing.
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
What does the repair accomplish? Is this one of the disc cleanup utilities? I have run the defragmenter but it provides no benefits.
I'll bet that I'm missing some techniques to clean these two up a bit. As mentioned, I'd rather not reload them.
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Basically, you can reinstall a clean version of XP from setup. You'll keep your programs/data and it may help with your problems. It can be worth a try before you reformat. You'll lose any service packs or updates, so you'll have to run Windows update following installation. It's hard to troubleshoot a PC over a forum like this though, so all advice given with a grain of salt! 
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