Well, the trouble is, u get an effed windose install and some1 can come along, clear out cached stuff, clear up the reg, tidy up the dlls, trim down u`r mail, defrag, sort out u`r fragged pagefile.. and it`ll run ~ok~ from that point. But the problem is u`r hanging on a string, w8ing for it to snap.
My thoughts have always been; if u feel something is wrong, and 1 or 2 things happen bizarrely - backup u`r stuff, while u can, and re-install. Otherwize u`ll be back on the forum asking how to find the mail folder on an effed install of windows - coz they`re not held in a folder called "email" in u`r "my documents" (even tho they`re in there, u can bang u`r head trying to establish if it`s u`rs or u`r sisters). Ur desperately trying to find dos disks, trying to find an ntfs extension thingy -- what about my address boooook!!! ----- bleh, backup whilst u still can.