Unstableness (not a mac rant) **rare**

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My os is WinXP pro and a few days ago my internet browsers FireFox and Explorer started crashing alot.

Next thing I knew when ever I opened anything a folder a game a app I would get a popup giving an error message for either browser saying it crashed. And then whatever app or folder I just opened crashs to. This is now starting to happen almost whenever I open anything. I checked with a few security apps: Norton, spybot, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.2. And I doubt its virus/trojen related.

edits: Some new weird things that just started today: Shortcut icons are randomly loseing/gaining their picture when I reboot.

Any advise on what to do before I reformate and delete everything?

[MattxMosh]

Stop using Macs and Service Pack 2.

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No, I will not stop using macs.

Service Pack 2 did not show up on Windows Update as a download and it did not show up for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer as an update that im missing.

I downloaded the pack anyways installed then restarted and it didnt fix a thing. Any advise on how to fix this? before I reformate

[Rbstr]

Wow thats odd, never heard of anything like it, atleast SP2 worked for you too(atleast mostly.)

I would do a spyware Scan With adaware 6.0 and spybot search and destroy. if that doens't help you may have to resort to the format

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Looks like its time to back up everything then.