are you just tring to free space up
or is your computer running slugishly

if your computer is slugish comared to the orginal install it may have spie ware on it
i run spybot ocationlaly also have somthing called zone alarm runing when on line which acts like a firewall as far as your ? i'm not that famerur with XP but you'll probley have to get a new seral # from microsoft more info would help


sorry about my bad spelling