Well I don't have any XP media, this box didn't come with any. It has a "recovery partition" on the hard drive. To reinstall the windows partition, I have to do it from
the recovery partition (it gives you the option of doing a fresh install, which is what I did). I suppose I could make a set of recovery CD's and then reinstall from those,
but I am not sure that would be any different than reinstalling from the recovery partition....

I downloaded and ran the norton removal tool....no help...Oh SORRY I missed the ONE about eventvwr....

Nothing in Application.

In system, there is nothing with today's date (and I shut it down last night).
However, there are some with yesterday's date:

DCOM: The server did not register with DCOM within the required timeout
and several "service control manager" waiting for the CD-buring COM to connect
(I don't even have a burner)

However.....if I go back even further..o the 20th....I see 4 "Disk controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D"...very interesting....that could be me though I was in there
changing cables around to boot from the other HD...I don't remember seeing
this error before and I have checked. There is one more instance of it on the 19th, my log only goes back to the 13th...that must have been when I renistalled. It is probably worth a closer look. What is the next step here?




HTTP://support.microsoft.com/kb/317751/en-us


spider Thanks, but I don't THINK that is it:

1. It is the "system" process not the "explorer" process
2. I have already tried the suggested solution, coming up to the latest
SP, and it did not fix it....