computer maintenance

[Apache]

any recommendations for some software that'll patch and repair windows?

[pdV6]

www.windowsupdate.com

...or a glazier

[plotloss]

Gonna need a bit more Pete.

Whats the issue?

[Apache]

I used to have some software that I could run which would pick up damaged files and repair them. It's just that my XP pro seems to be having an off day, I can't run windows update (it just sits therre looking without actually connecting) and cleandisk won't run (gets hung up at the 'compressing old files' bit)

[plotloss]

If you google for that symptom of disk cleanup there is a fix.

You need to enter the registry and delete the key that refers to the compression step so cleanup bypasses it.

[Apache]

bugger! outlook keeps hanging and then what I wrote suddenly appears and PH takes ages to load a page. Ran Norton but it didn't find owt. I'm afraid I'm not techie enough for what you suggested Matt

[Apache]

done that, disk cleanup won't even boot up now