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Thanks – CHKDSK has already been tried, though (I should have mentioned that).

Just for fun, I started Task Manager and watched the processes. The flyout menu freeze finally happened – and it was Microsoft Security Essentials eating up the CPU! Talk about a slap in the face…

I’ve seen MSSE eat up the CPU on other things over the years. Running a full system scan has always restored performance, so I just ran one. We’ll see.

Hi Jim,
Open event viewer from the start button, type ‘event’, wait till it loads.
Click Applications and Service Logs>Microsoft>Windows>Diagnostics-Performance>Operational
Event ID 100 = boot, 200 = shutdown.
Check as image.

Ummm – are you sure? That sure doesn’t look like an XP screen (or an XP Event Viewer), and Start-Run-Event does nothing in XP. The XP command to open Event Viewer is Start-Run-Eventvwr.

Or, there’s the old tried-and-proven freeware program called “Absolute Shutdown.” It will adjust the system’s wait periods to kill all hung processes with a simple GUI. Install, change all the settings to five seconds, then reboot.

http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-absolute-shutdown-freeware-fdkhaovf.html

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

Beware – not all Intel CPUs will support the XP mode. You’d be surprised at some of the heavyweights that won’t, and some of the lightweights that will. Check out this article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

If you uninstall them, you’ll be backing out the update. In theory, you should be able to uninstall something that’s an older update that’s had a newer update applied, but that’s not always the case.

Huh?

Sometimes, a new patch will just add to the earlier patch, and blowing out the older patch will cripple or kill the new patch (or worse – it could take your machine down). Not always, of course, but it’s happened to several people I know.

If you uninstall them, you’ll be backing out the update. In theory, you should be able to uninstall something that’s an older update that’s had a newer update applied, but that’s not always the case.

Huh?

Sometimes, a new patch will just add to the earlier patch, and blowing out the older patch will cripple or kill the new patch (or worse – it could take your machine down). Not always, of course, but it’s happened to several people I know.

If you uninstall them, you’ll be backing out the update. In theory, you should be able to uninstall something that’s an older update that’s had a newer update applied, but that’s not always the case.

Huh?

Sometimes, a new patch will just add to the earlier patch, and blowing out the older patch will cripple or kill the new patch (or worse – it could take your machine down). Not always, of course, but it’s happened to several people I know.

If you uninstall them, you’ll be backing out the update. In theory, you should be able to uninstall something that’s an older update that’s had a newer update applied, but that’s not always the case.

Huh?

Sometimes, a new patch will just add to the earlier patch, and blowing out the older patch will cripple or kill the new patch (or worse – it could take your machine down). Not always, of course, but it’s happened to several people I know.