Having problems with XP Pro already

[tummynavelboy]

ALL i did was download the Free player of Real Player because i saved two clips from this site onto XP Pro into the ''my music folder'' and once i installed Real Player i watched both of the clips. and right after that i unistalled real player and it said real player was uninstalled fine with no problems. But then once i started XP pro back up restarted it a Box came up and said iexplore.exe the program is Not responding then it gives me two options End and Cancel. so i clicked on cancel then after i did that i was Defraged XP Pro. and i even did the Disk Cleanup. and also even got rid of both the clips. But after i did all theses steps it still said iexplore.exe program not responding after i restarted it for the 2nd time. But once i double click on internet explore it works Fine! and my parents and i only have ''12 total'' desktop icons on the computer for XP Pro. me and my parents have only been using XP Pro for like 4 Days. and all ready this comes up 😡 Will this iexplore.exe not responding message, is it something to worry about? Will it or could cause more problems for us?

 

[xipolis]

got an antivirus ?

i got the blaster worm when i went online the first time with XP

 

[tummynavelboy]

Yeah my family and i got Norton antivirus 2002 (we really need to upGrade to the 2004 one) but we haven't yet. I even did the whole system scan thing every week like they say to do.

But about my problem i got up this morning and went to the computer and that Program not repsonding box was still on there so i clicked on end now and another Box came up something about a DLL file needs to shut down this program or something. so i clicked it and it ended the Program not responding box and it also shut down XP Pro and when i restarted my computer the box hasn't came back up since then. so we'll see if it happens again but so far we're GOOD.

 

[TickleTheater]

Free online scan:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

 

[MistressValerie1]

I think you have a Windows problem -- Real One player usually works fine with all Windows versions.

Even if the anti-virus scan is negative, try the following two things: from Start -> Run -> then type in: "chkdsk c: /f" (without the quotes) and hit enter, then type Y and enter in the black popup box that will appear, then reboot. After that is finished, try Start-> Run then type in: "sfc /scannow" (withiout the quotes) and then hit enter and let it run.

I suspect that Real One installed badly and may have corrupted your file system or possibly some Windows files. These two measures might fix it.

Best of luck,

 

[Faramir]

did you tell Windows to make RM player the default player?

Norton SystemWorks can fix it probably...works great for me with progs I un-install. The registry fixing part of it is what I'm referring to.

 

[Merman]

I had a similar problem with XP but with a different program. Once the problem started it didn't go away. The problem kept deteriorating until it was a supreme pain in my butt. I tried many quick fixes that a lot of the tech web sites gave. What finally solved it was just wiping the hard drive and doing a clean install of XP. If you don't have a lot on your system I'd really suggest just doing it and solving the problem from the start. I wasted about 3 months fighting with that problem.

Merman :wooha: