I'm going to have to go with this. If you did all that you mentioned, theres not much left but to reformat.

Reformatting is good, anyways. If you haven't reformatted for at least 6 months, its time you did so. Unfortunately not everyone has an external hard drive or a large flash drive, so it makes backing up files difficult. But if you can easily back up important files, its worth reformatting every so often, even when you don't have any issues in Windows.
 
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If that doesn't fix your problem then try this:
If you are running XP and have an XP disk with SP2 or SP3 included then you can use a function called a "repair install" (Procedure for Vista is completely different) it leaves all your files and programs in place but replaces all windows files
Instructions: Perform a Repair Installation

If you don't yet have SP3 installed you can try installing SP3, it replaces enough system files that it might help you but I would hold off on trying this until you have tried the other two.

If neither of these solutions work then I suppose that a reinstall is your only solution

Still, I don't understand why people always jump to the conclusion that a reformat is the only option without first trying all the alternatives (I'm looking at you Georgio)

Edit: Oh, and when you get the option to send an error report, please do send it, Microsoft does get useful information from them.
 
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1) Holy shit it's ANTHONY!!!!!!!

2) Because I don't know alot of details about the problem, so I can't go looking on google for a possible fix. Even if I did find one, I don't know how deep someone is willing to go into the OS to solve a problem. Usually I'll go to the ends of google (which I still haven't found) to solve a problem. I finally fixed my crashing video card drivers by google searching everything.

3) I'm generally kinda lazy and when I was running Ubuntu, it was not uncommon for me to just put in 10 minutes to reinstall the OS to undo whatever mess I made in the shell trying to fix a bug. So I just kinda got used to just reinstalling when things became unfixable. Unless it was a hardware problem then no matter how many times you reinstall the software, it's not going to go away.
 
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This sounds highly possible.
Right now I have 2 sticks of RAM installed. A 512 and a 256, by different manufacturers. My machine came with just 256 despite it's 2.91 gig Pentium 4 processor. Since it was so cheap I got this and just bought the extra memory. I'll try removing the 256 stick first, If that doesn't work I'll swap it with the 512. Both of them can't have the same error surely.
 
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Over 6 years of history and friendship, deleted over a difference in an opinion.

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Challenge any creationist to a debate.
They'll run away and aggressively accuse you of "attacking" them and their "beliefs".
I'm sorry, please, keep teaching our kids that they'll burn in hell if they don't believe. Mutilate their genitals against their will while you're at it. Keep influencing politics and holding back vital scientific research.
I'll just keep my mouth shut to "respect" your "beliefs".

You pay me a sara set, and ill download it and post it to you?

 
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It's not just Java that does it, so why would he want to do that?
 
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