can you run this, see link Then this http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/ Anyway you can run Malwarebytes http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/malwarebytes-anti-malware/ Here is a link that might be useful: adwcleaner

sometimes it depends on which type of email client you use but my guess is that you do probably have a lot of your mail stored on your pc. Keeping things in mail form is not a good idea any way if you find them important. I would save all of those pictures off to DVD's or flash drives or external drives, at the very least set up an online storage for them to get them off the pc and in a safe place. You can use photo album sites or you can use a back up site like Adrive which I use, they give you 50gig of free space which is a lot and you can purchase more. http://www.adrive.com/ it is super easy to use. you can move batches of files from your pc to the site for storage. For the pictures you have in your emails you need to actually save them to pc by right clicking on them and save as and then put them in a folder on your pc, then from that folder you can move them to DVD or online storage etc and then delete the folder and contents. You could set up different folders to do some organizing of the pictures at that time too. so you have a 300 gig drive but have partitioned it to only have a total of 61.2 GB? If that is the case your other partition can be used to store a lot of that kind of stuff, however of course should you have a drive failure you would lose it no matter which partition it was on so having them saved off the pc is a good idea too. Why was it partitioned that way and how many partitions are there and what sizes? I am assuming this is xp? I don't remember. go into your event viewer and look for red or yellow flags if you see any double click on that entry to get more info, see if you see any that say something about saved users registry because something was still using it, I don't remember the exact wording but that is close. I think you may benefit from running the hive cleanup tool. User Profile Hive Cleanup Service Definition of what it is from online: What's User Profile Hive Cleanup Service "Frequently, a driver or application leaks registry handles, which means the driver or application opens the registry but doesn't close it. The open registry isn't a problem until you log off, when the profile of the logged-on user tries to unload the user's registry but fails because it's still in use. An open registry connection is a major problem if you use roaming profiles; because the system can't unload your profile, Windows can't copy it back to the profile storage server. If the system doesn't unload your profile, when you log on the next day you'll receive an error stating that your local profile is newer than your remote profile. Typically, with this problem an administrator will see event ID 1517, 1524, or 1500 in the event logs. Microsoft provides a service called UPHClean, which checks for leaked connections to the registry and cleans them up, thereby letting a user's profile unload cleanly so Windows can copy it back to the remote profile storage area. You can download UPHClean at Web site. Your best option is to download file UPHClean-Setup.msi, which you can then deploy through Group Policy or--if you need to deploy UPHClean on a large scale--Systems Management Server (SMS). You need Administrator privileges to install UPHClean interactively. I've used UPHClean many times, and it has always fixed the profile-locking problems." another download location for it User Profile Hive Cleanup Service 1.6d give that a shot and see if it helps, as always I suggest creating restore points before installing anything so that should you need to revert you always can. I have had to use the hive cleanup tool on some of my xp machines.

I dunno, but curious. Maybe Open a Computer Management window and then look at the Disk Management. Select the drive0 and properties, digging back until you really get that drive properties Properties/Hardware/Properties/Volume/Populate ... something like that anyhow.

Zep, Sorry for the dual threads but this was something unrelated to the first one and I thought it may not be answered if I added this to that. Ravencajun, You have given me lots of tips to look into, thanks for that. Firstly when I look in events, systems have quite a number of yellow and red flags, the reds are re network lease not being allowed which is fine as I don't network anyway. Yellow are Warnings with date time for userenv, don't have a clue ! Applications have a few red and yellow flags unrelated to graphics. Re start ups, there are 50 running on startup, that seems a lot? The Belarc download is fantastic, small section section of my computer attached...I cannot see any vidio card listed though. " System Model Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) No details available Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 64 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N-MX Rev 1.xx Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0404 11/24/2006 Drives Memory Modules c,d 160.03 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 146.44 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] AVEX AX1611 CF USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1 AVEX AX1611 MS USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2 AVEX AX1611 SM USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4 AVEX AX1611 MMC/SD USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3 ST3160811AS [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0 1920 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 146.44 GB free "