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Originally Posted by edit
Win XP SP2
No Win Discs available,
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It started out with my PDF Printer freezing whenever a new job was queued. Uninstalling and reinstalled usually fixed it. Now that has completely stopped working. Then it was KeePass, my password manager. That stopped working. I had to uninstall it (failed the first time), delete all remaining files, and reinstall.
Now it seems everyone of my programs that I have installed on my computer refuses to work without first being uninstalled and then reinstalled. Needless to say, this has me concerned. I have never experienced such a thing before. The likelihood of all my programs suddenly becoming crap through random errors is highly unlikely, so I suspect there is some cause. I have tested my security with every scanning utility known and have found nothing. Advanced rootkits aside, I doubt that somehow my computer is infected.
I have yet to update my computer with the latest Windows updates, because of the news that the latest updates crashed many HP systems (which I own) and AMD systems (no worries here).
Unfortunately this is a school provided laptop, and the school has thankfully increased the security on their ghost images. Fellow students began experiencing problems with their machines, had to reimage, but were stiffed by the new security feature that prevents them from connecting to the school license server when outside the university. I would rather not mail my laptop to my university for them to reimage it properly only to receive it back three weeks later finding that they did not activate my user name and password on the domain (Yes, they are that good).
So three questions:
- What the hell is causing this?
- If there is an answer to (2), how the hell do I fix it or prevent my system from deteriorating more?
- What freeware imaging software exists that is functional on SATA drives? I was following this TFP thread with interest until Xerxys informed me that the program I found does not work on SATA hardware. I can always try it, hoping something is different.