What is this?!

[X_Jado_X]

At random, this happens.... What exactly is it?

(Alex - Conversation and the time)

Sometimes all the icons dissapear as well, until I hold CTRL ALT DELETE....

[TurcoLoco]

One of the system cache files could be getting corrupted, why?
Possibly, either a bad background process (legit or malicious) or you got bad RAM.

[X_Jado_X]

How am I supposed to fix it?

[pheonix73]

Since I have noticed you posting here in the past.Have you followed Judy's recommendations and removed some of the un-necessary things from your HD to free up space.I will also note that it has been mentioned before that you needed more RAM for your online gaming practices.As said in the past,and will be said many more times in your posts to come.If you don't do some of the suggestions offered,the troubles will continue to emerge.All in all,that is just my opinion,but it may be boosted by others.

[jholland1964]

You have "hit the nail on the head" Phoenix!
Why should we bother offering suggestions X_Jado_X?
You have followed absolutely NONE of them. Give me one reason why we should bother. You have begun 9 threads here and on virtually every one of them you have been told to clean up the computer and you have not. The problem is NOT ENOUGH SPACE REMAINING. You were told exactly one month ago to the day that you, on THAT day, had 8% of your hard drive remaining free...that is barely enough to boot the computer.
When you finally decide to follow each and every suggestion then we will help. Until then, as far as I am concerned, you are on your own.

[X_Jado_X]

Ok, tommorrow is the day I fix this damned thing.

[cauzomb]

I've been trying to fix my brand new upgrade thing on and off for a week, so don't get discouraged With a couple bad attempts or three? I've made 12 attempts at installing my XP sp2 with different F6, RAID drivers on a floppy, only to find each and every time, I haven't quite got the propper drivers installed. After a while I started searching for this issue and found numerous articles that it's Microsoft Windows XP's setup that is reverting to it's own drivers even after I tell it to use MY drivers./ Now I have to make a disk with special text files and include drivers that are supposed to prevent MS XP setup from reverting the RAID drivers, but the first attempt say's "DID NOT FIND ANY HARD DISK DRIVES". All the instructions are worth the effort, only if they are done correctly, and then you still may find that the effort and fix wasn't for the issue that you have in the long run.

It's a blind tediumx2

process of ellimination, without knowing, or using auditing tools in person on your machine, we can't KNOW exactly what is wrong with your machine. Our volunteers are trying their best to help you, but it's frustrating for them to provide their time to you, only to find out that you didn't follow through with the instructions.

My suggestion to you, atleast for now, if you are having any issues with the instructions to fix up your PC and can't complete the instructions, at the very least get a new bigger hard drive, get a fresh installation of windows going on it, and avoid installing any questionable software, no peer to peer file shairing, no questionable downloads, no unlicensed media etc. Then put in your old Hard disk setup as a SLAVE, that way you have access to your old data files, when you load off your new drive, load safe mode, and scan the old drive with several good antivirus programs. everything else from there would be up to you, decide to clean the old drive, migrate your old important files from the old drive onto CD or DVD, or at a last resort over to the new drive, "warning"-serious risk of virus infections for the latter suggestion, then reformat the old hard drive and use it for a "programs/data" drive. This way your PC may suffer an infection on the boot disk and most of your data/programs will remain unaffected, which in turn makes it easier to just re-install your OS after reformatting the infected partition/file system.

[X_Jado_X]

I can't go out and buy anything; I am only fifteen.

I have burned all my songs to CDR's and deleted them, what next?

[TurcoLoco]

I can't go out and buy anything; I am only fifteen.

I have burned all my songs to CDR's and deleted them, what next?

Well, burn all non-critical data (especially the big files) to CDs as well. This would create a backup of your data for future use as well and also give your OS some breathing room on the HD.

Use a good junk/temp file cleaner suc has CCleaner. If you decide to use CCleaner, take a look at my hints on this post for using the program which could help you get rid of big junk files that most users do keep on their system not knowing they could get rid of them especially when space is limited.

And all other suggestions made by other regulars in your previous threads which you might not have followed (being 15 doesn't excuse you for this failure )

Good Luck,
~TL

[X_Jado_X]

Lol I meant that I can't just go out and buy a new drive.

Thanks TL, I'll do that right now.