Routine Check Up - Judy/Cauzomb Please?

[jholland1964]

Certainly, use HiJackThis to generate an Uninstall list.
Start HijackThis
Click on the Misc Tools button
Click on the Open Uninstall Manager button.
Click on the Save list... button and specify where you would like to save this file. When you press Save button a notepad will open with the contents of that file. Simply copy and paste the contents of that notepad into a reply

[DomHennig]

32 Bit HP CIO Components Installer
Acrobat.com
Acrobat.com
Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR
Adobe Audition 3.0
Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX
Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin
Adobe Reader 9.2
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5
Akamai NetSession Interface
Apple Application Support
Apple Mobile Device Support
Apple Software Update
Auslogics BoostSpeed
Auslogics Disk Defrag
Belarc Advisor 8.1
Bonjour
Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
Broadcom Management Programs
Cisco Clean Access Agent
CodeStuff Starter
Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system
Conexant HDA D110 MDC V.92 Modem
Digital Line Detect
DVDFab 6.2.1.8 (31/12/2009)
ESET Online Scanner v3
GIMP 2.6.8
HiJackThis
Hotfix for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB953595)
Hotfix for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB958484)
HP Photosmart C4600 All-In-One Driver 13.0 Rel .5
Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver
Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Software
iTunes
Java(TM) 6 Update 20
Lexmark X73
LiveUpdate 3.3 (Symantec Corporation)
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
mCore
mDriver
mDrWiFi
mHlpDell
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Security Update (KB979906)
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Microsoft Compression Client Pack 1.0 for Windows XP
Microsoft Kernel-Mode Driver Framework Feature Pack 1.7
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft User-Mode Driver Framework Feature Pack 1.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 ATL Update kb973923 - x86 8.0.50727.4053
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Microsoft WinUsb 1.0
Minitab 15 English
mIWA
mLogView
mMHouse
Mozilla Firefox (3.6.8)
mPfMgr
mPfWiz
mProSafe
mSCfg
mSSO
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)
MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973688)
MSXML 6.0 Parser
mWlsSafe
mWMI
mZConfig
Novell iPrint Client v05.12.00
PdaNet for Android 2.41
Pinnacle Studio 14
Pinnacle Video Driver
QuickTime
RealPlayer
Roll
Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB971961)
Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB976325)
Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB978207)
Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB981332)
Security Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB982381)
SigmaTel Audio
Skype™ 4.1
Sonic Encoders
Statistics
Statistics (Fall 2009 Student Version)
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Synaptics Pointing Device Driver
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (KB963707)
Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB975364)
Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB976662)
Update for Windows Internet Explorer 8 (KB980182)
Windows Driver Package - Ricoh Company (rimsptsk) hdc (11/14/2006 6.00.01.04)
Windows Media Format 11 runtime
Windows Media Format 11 runtime
Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player 11
Windows XP Service Pack 3


What can/should go?

[jholland1964]

Frankly Dom don't see much there EXCEPT no DVD Player software. That is why you cannot play DVD's, you need to have player software installed in order to be able to play them. Now there IS a listing for the Sonic Encoders, which "might" be what you would need to reinstall, I cannot say for certain. Check the disks that came with the computer. If you used to be able to play DVD's and can't anymore then that is the reason, you don't have the software installed.

[DomHennig]

I do not have the discs anymore that came with my computer. This is more than 5 years old. Are there alternative solutions?

[jholland1964]

You need to check with Dell, if that is who manufactured the computer. They very well may have a decoder available for free. Also check with the manufacturer of the DVD drive itself, they often also offer free ones.
Cyberlink has one for XP you can purchase and download for $14.95

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/xp_plugin/enu/index.jsp

[cauzomb]

Hard drive looks a bit full; 6gb free, maybe free up some hard drive space, to give windows some more breathing room for virtual memory as it can take most all of that space at startup=swapping more files between virtual memory and physical memory.

have a look at this http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...02april15.mspx