System lock-up or slow down

I installed Kazaa Media Desktop Peer to Peer file sharing
program several weeks ago. Since the installation, my
system started slowing down to a crawl or our right
freezing. If I was abel to get the taskmanager up I
could see the explorer.exe program using about 99% of the
CPU resources during these times. The only way out of
these predicaments was to log off then back on or to hit
the reset button. I uninstalled Kazaa using the
add/remove software and I also ran registry cleaner and
my system is still freezing. I suspect that I have a
corrupt system file. I'm running XP 2002 SP1 on a P4
1.8GHz with 512MB and a GForce4MX 440 Graphics card. How
can I check for any corrupt windows files? I've tried
system restore but to no avail.

Hi Larry,

It probably wasn't Kazaa itself, but rather one of the add-on bits of
software it installs along with the fiel-sharing software. Look in the
Control Panel/Add & Remove for Promulgate Universe, Pgmonitr, or Delfin and
uninstall them as well.

There is also the chance that one of the many worms known to exploit the
file sharing service may have made its way onto your system. Run a full
system scan with an up-tp-date antivirus program as well.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Larry" wrote in message
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I installed Kazaa Media Desktop Peer to Peer file sharing
program several weeks ago. Since the installation, my
system started slowing down to a crawl or our right
freezing. If I was abel to get the taskmanager up I
could see the explorer.exe program using about 99% of the
CPU resources during these times. The only way out of
these predicaments was to log off then back on or to hit
the reset button. I uninstalled Kazaa using the
add/remove software and I also ran registry cleaner and
my system is still freezing. I suspect that I have a
corrupt system file. I'm running XP 2002 SP1 on a P4
1.8GHz with 512MB and a GForce4MX 440 Graphics card. How
can I check for any corrupt windows files? I've tried
system restore but to no avail.