i was minding my own business actually doing some work at where i work(insurance agent) and go hit by the windows virus pro virus, found the fix it file that told me what to delete out of the registry to get rid of it, did that, but now my internet explorer is acting squirrelly and giving me messages like internet stopped working looking for solution, then pretty much saying it will shut down, some times it does somestime i get to go where i want, but it also doesn't want to use search engines, the rest of the computer is fine, but sometimes when i start it up the screen goes orange and when i run the windows validation tool, it told me that i had a corrupted version to windows, got this laptop from a friend and use it for my job. she how ever lost the disk that do the restore and had the drivers on it. so i really cant reformat and start over, don't really want to, but can i do a restore from the restore disks that you spoke of on other threads, what should i do any advice is welcome, by the way it is a dell inspiron 6400,with vista home edition 32 bit, at least 3 years old. will check back tommorow, and i will be asking some more questions at later dates im sure, so be patient with me ,i have more than one computer by the way i also have a toshiba that i think i have to send off to get repaired but that will wait for another day.