My windows do not to as they are told :(

[Guest]

When I click on a window, it may resize, or minimize, (never close), or when
I touch a slider toggle, (i.e. on the right side of my Inbox Microsoft
Outlook for example), the Outlook window will minimize, I may try to close an
IE window, by clicking the RED X button, but the window will actually
restore, so I will maximize it, try to close it again, it will minimize, this
may happen 5 times before it eventually closes.

N.B. The windows never close inadvertently unless I close them though.
Maximizing, minimizing, restoring or clicking on a window had never made the
window close down.

I thought this problem was related to a pop up, but apparently I need to
'repair windows XP'. I dont have a Windows XP Disc, although I got the laptop
new 6 months ago.

The link to the all the details, and how the pop up was removed it here:


http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=106632&st=0&p=583669&#entry583669


On the second page, (PHEW), I was told by Nasdaq to visit the fllowing site
but it looks pretty heavy stuff!


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI



Any ideas would be extremely well received!

Best Regards

Harlan

 

[Ron Badour]

What brand laptop do you have? If it is a Dell, see this article:
http://support.dell.com/support/top...e/en/backupcd_form?c=us&l=en&s=gen&redirect=1

 

[Guest]

Hello Ron, the laptop is a Toshiba Satelite a100 with XP Home (SP2).

 

[Guest]

It is Toshiba Satellite a100 running XP Home w/SP2.

 

[Ron Badour]

Harlan,

I would write or call Toshiba and ask for an XP CD. What some OEMs have
been doing lately is putting an image of the system on the hard drive and
you can restore from it. However, if the drive dies, then you are left
without a system and no system disk. Very short sighted thinking on
someone's part. Dell did that to me and I had quite a bit of trouble
getting a CD (language barrier and slightly hard of hearing here). Once I
had the URL, it was easy to order a Dell XP CD.