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Right click on Desktop: Properties, Appearance Tab, Advanced Button, Select Dropdown box, Select Icon Spacing (Horizontal or Vertical). (XP SP3).

I had a similar problem with my WinXP SP3 box. The solution was to disable my antivirus application (Avast) during the search for updates. All is well now.

I had a similar problem with Office applications, specifically Word documents, except that the printer did not spit out paper. I had previously installed a “RAMDisk” application which purported to speed access to web, et al. and which required that I point locations that otherwise would have been hard disk resident to those of the newly established RAMDisk, one of which specifically was the location of temporary internet files. Office uses this location to provide “assistance” to you as you work (help, suggestions, etc.), and the default locations are apparently hard coded in Office. This no-print behavior occurred after installing the RAMDisk application and before setting temporary internet files back to the default location after removal of the RAMDisk application (a trial). You might consider whather you have similarly relocated temporary internet files to a non-default location, and, if so, setting them back to default and see if this solves your problem. It did for me, and I was at a complete loss prior to doing so. Good luck.

Start – Run – CMD – chkdsk /? (will show all options)
Decide on appropriate option(s) (e.g. /f, /r, etc.)

Type, depending on option(s) decided, chkdsk (drive letter): /(option1) /(option2) – without parentheses! example: chkdsk c: /f /r

Message will appear if drive is in use, asking whether you want to perform the task at next boot. Answer yes, type exit (to exit command mode) and reboot. chkdsk will run on the specified partition with the options which you have specified.