I have done what you said but the result is the same, please don,t get to tecnical as i am just a beginner (ha ha) it still says insufficient system resoures exist to complete the API

Ive done what you said and the result is the same, please don,t get to tecnical as i am only a beginer (ha ha) it still reads (system error) insuffcient system resourses to complete API

API

Have you the XP Pro disc?

no i havn,t sorry

and you cant boot into safe mode and run last good configuration.

unless someone else has an idea I dont know what to try next apart from doing a clean install what'll be awkward without a XP disc

well thanks for trying jeff it looks like a shop job thanks again

One possibility is to download the Windows XP 6 Disk Setup Set

HERE

then try working thru the Recovery Console

Recovery Console in Windows XP