Well this sounds very complicated, but I may be able to shed some light on
part of your issue, the computer freezing. First off let us verify the
integrity of the system, I mean let us check for viruses, spyware and
malware. What kind of antivirus software do you have? Run a full virus
scan, The best anti Virus is Avast. It will locate and remove viruses for
you. You can download a free copy from
http://www.avast.com . I would
reccommend downloading that, installing it and running a full scan. Then if
you have a malware/spyware program run a full scan with that. I would
reccommend Spware terminator it is a very good free spyware/malware program.
Download it instatall it and run a full scan. Download from
http://www.spywareterminator.com
Next let us clean up XP using the built in Microsoft cleaning and
maintenance tools
One: Open up Internet explorer and select tools. If you have IE7 at the top
you will see an option that says "delete all". Click that and check the
check in the checkbox about other data. This deletes unnesscary files in the
IE cache which stores cached information. If you are on IE6 then go to
tools, internet options and go through and delete everything.
2. Next there is a fantastic cleaning utility that is free and cleans out
unnesscarry files it is called Cccleaner go to
http://www.ccleaner.com.
Download it and install it. It has two tabs Windows and applications. Type
Start and type Run. Then type "prefetch". You will see a folder with lots
of files. In the upper left hand cornerner click file and select all. Then
click file delete. On the Windows tab in CC Cleaner hit analyze. This will
show you how much it can delete. The first time it will probably be a lot
(which is a good thing) Then hit run cleaner and ok. Do the same thing on
the application tab.
Next go to start, all programs, accessories, system tools, disc cleanup.
Select your C drive and wait for it to give you a box with files in it This
catches any files that did not get deleted just check all the checkboxes and
hit ok to delete. Now we will do a defragmentation of your hard drive (a lot
of this is maintenance you should do monthly) Go to start, all programs,
accessories, system tools, disk defragmenter. Click defragment now. This
could take three to four hours initially but you can minimize it and do other
things. Next finally go to start, my computer left click right cick on C,
select properties and tools. You will see two boxes. One says defragmgmeter
which we just did and the says sytem file checker. This checks for bad
sectors on the C disc. Let us run that and have it fix bad sectors
automatically. There are two boxes to be checked her check both where it
says to run and automatically fix errors then click OK. It will tell you it
needs to restart to do this do you want to do it when you restart and say
yes. Make sure everything else is done then restart the computer and the
disk check will run and automatically fix any errors.
Please let me know if there is an improvement.
Best Regards,
Kaja Sanvean
"Pops" wrote:
> Running windows xp he sp3. Lost my operating system, during installation of
> a third party program update. Bought a new hard drive, configured it to run
> the same win xp he sp3 os, with my original hard drive set as a slave. Have
> recovered most of my family pictures, no emails, no mozilla thunderbird
> address book, and no to my wife's beauty consultant business program files.
>
> Problem #1: Upon opening my wife's program, i get a message showing a
> runtime error '339' : Can't find cscmd32.ocx or cstext32.ocx or one of its
> component files, which may not be registered. Believe this to be ActiveX
> related. Also, have just read another post here, which says to run >regsvr32
> cscmd32.ocx to register it. As well: all ocx files s/b in same folder; ie:
> c:\windows\system32\*.ocx .
>
> Problem #2: Related to Problem #1 is my problem of the subject named above;
> Computer FREEZE. Freeze-up occurs at the end of a windows search for
> exercise. Have to manually power down and re-power the PC.
> <Ctrl>,<Alt><Delete> doesn't work or respond, as well as any other keyboard
> commands.
>
> Any hints?
> --
> Poppa Ken
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