Originally Posted by Zeus

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.



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!