I still need help

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Hi Tracy,
I don't know the whole story, but here's something I
would suggest:
Click start/run and type this command: sfc /scannow
It will scan you Windows Xp to find any corrupted files
that may exist after the power failure you experienced.
Hope it helps.
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Ok. I've got the disk clean up to run. I've deleted all
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temp files, checked for virus, spyware and ad ware. I
have defag too. My husband found out something about
checking the IDE channel's tranfer mode. He was told it
should be DMA. It's on PIO mode. He put it on DMA if
available. He says he need to change it in the BIOS. We
don't know how to access the BIOS. I'm going to look
more, and I don't know how to change it. The main problem
we are tring to fix is slow start up speed. Slow Computer
in some programs and mulitasking is impossible with the
slow speeds.
My Computer is an OEM.

It was suggest that I have a memory problem. This is not
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true. This is a new computer and it has 149 GB total size
on Drive C and 136GB Free. My computer was running fine
until we had an power outage. It took me three days to
get the disk clean up to run. But I got that done. Now on
the XP Loading Screen, Where it says Windows XP and Has
the line going accross it. Takes for ever. Almost all of
my programs are running except one of my husband, which
we are going to try to just reinstall. I took off norton
for now. Worried I like to put it back on, but someone
suggested it may be the problem, Plus we were beta
testing a new one. The only other program is incredimail
and I told it not to start up on start up. I'm lost.
Please Help!!!
 
Ty for the suggestion I done this to tons of times and it find nothing. I was thinking about reinstalling XP. I don't know how to reformat it though.
 
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