I have been having problems with windows XP for awhile now no matter if I do a clean install or just try and mess with settings. I have been looking everywhere for answers to these problems. So I have a little list of problems that I have encountered and fixed. This could be helpfull for some of you with windows xp.
Computer freezez/reboots outa no where?
One thing that I noticed was people with WinXP and AthalonXP processers have this freezing proplem. I have never herd it with the Intel cpu. I fixed this error in my BIOS by turning up the vCore and the I/O Voltage untill it did not freeze anymore. You should not turn it way up right away, just one setting at a time because turning it way up at once could damage your cpu or memory (I messed up my memory trying to see how high I could go so theres your warning). If it dosen't freeze after moving it up 1 setting, leave it alone.
Computer reboots without warning?
Now this one is the worst one that I have been trying to figure out for a long long time. Each re-boot that my system does automatically takes more and more time to re-boot and will eventually get stuck at the loading screen and not be able to recover it. This has happened to me many times. I found a way to stop the auto reboot, and figured out why it does it. The reason behind the 'auto reboot' is there is either a error in the OS,a small system faliure or it's trying to protect your files. I turned this off because when it is on and reboots it crashes my OS and I end up reinstalling anyways. To turn this off go to Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery. De-select Automatically restart. You computer will not 'auto reboot' any longer.
The next thing is, did you know winxp had a Debug option when loading windows incase you are getting serious errors? When my computer rebooted, after time it would slowley screw my OS. So I found a web site that told me to press F8 during the first few screens of the boot process (im not sure which screen, just keep pressing it till it shows), this will bring up and advanced loading screen and the debug option, this fixed the Fastfat problem that I was having from my computer 'auto rebooting' all the time.
Another thing is that stupid Messenger spam! You ever had a message popup outa no where that said "free porn! Go to this website:
www.somthing.com" or some other spam? (Look at attachment for example) I got 4 in a row today, they will log your IP if the send is successful. This can only happen to win2000, xp and NT users but it gets very annoying when I am trying to get somthing done, it closes all my programs. I found a way to disable this without downloading some stupid program that isn't needed. To disable This Messenger service do the following:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > Messenger. Click stop, then from the scroll down box select Disabled. Then reboot your computer. If you recieve errors or suddeny programs aren't working enable it again. But I haven't have any spam, or errors with it off.
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Also, if you have ever downloaded a file on the internet, and Unchecked that box, "Always ask before downloading this type of file." and now you want it to ask again, do this:
Open Explorer, (Otherwords, click on My Computer), Go to Tools > Folder Options > File Types. Now say you want IE to ask you before it automatically opens a ZIP file. Look for the extension "ZIP" in the list, select it, click advanced and then tick the box that sais "Confirm Open after download". That should fix your problems
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I will add to this list cause I seem to have lots of problems. But they are all cleard up now
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