Help Center hangs after XP Repair Install

[Guest]

Media Player 9 was hanging when playing streaming video from internet, Could
not resolve, so I performed Windows XP Repair Install. Install hanged a
number of times but succeeded after numberous resets.

Now Help Center hangs when I try to do Windows Update. Internet Explorer
also hangs when trying to do the same.

Any help?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would try using CHKDSK (error checking) to test the drive.