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by alan.fearn

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At home i run Windows XP Home Edition and have found that with certain
software the operating system locks up completely, also when using
search loOking for temp files to delete it is very slow, when it does
lock up and i use ctrl, alt del to reboot, all i get is a window that
opens telling me what software is running and the system doesn't reboot,
it locks so much that i have to turn my pc off at the wall socket and
then i have to wait for it to reset before using it again, is there
anything that i can do to stop this, or is this just abnother fault with
Microsoft operating systems, my pc is only about 3 months old and is a
packard bell 1.3ghertz processor with 512meg RAM.

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by aakash shah

I can answer one part of your question. Windows XP is designed not to reboot when you press Ctrl + Alt + Del twice. However, you can reboot by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del once and then clicking on the Shut Down menu from the Windows Task Manager, and then clicking on restart.

by parvus1202

That is very unusual for a 3 month old computer. Win XP home and Win ME are identical, they are both unworthy OSes. There are reasons why Microsoft do different OSes insted of just plane WinXP pro or Win 2000 pro. Anyway, have you installed too manyprograms already? Did you surf too many internet sites? Did you recently clean up your disc? Did you defragment yet? Did you clean up history in your Windows Explorer? Did you run any virus check? These are just a few first aid solutions. Nothing iscertain yet untill all is carefully checked. Maybe you wanna install real OS, like Win2000Pro. These are just few suggestions, hope it helps.

by thechas

The file search runs very slow on my XP Pro PC also, this is part of Microsoft's file indexing, and other "features" that they added for our convienience.

As to the lockups. Have you installed any updates from Microsoft?
If not, I would start by running Windows Update, and installing all security and application compatability fixes.
Driver updates may also be worth the time to download.
As to the recommended updates, it is up to you. I only install updates for features that I use.

Next, check with the individual software manufactures for program updates.
MANY OLDER programs do not function in XP.

If you care to post a list of the programs and versions that are locking up for you, we can check what the compatability is.

Chas

by rcom

Maybe parvus will send you the funds to buy win2000 and all your problems will be fixed. :)

I have XP home and ME and they have been no more or less stable than anything else. I don't erase or format hard drives or advise customer's to change the OS because I can't find what's wrong. I may waste some time looking for ways to correct problems but that's how one learns. A forum like this is very helpfull inpicking brains to find solutions, there's some really good techs that post here.

That brings me to what i wanted to add to.

As the man Chas has stated there are the basic things that you can try but it would help to know more about your problem.

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