Jephree: Okay I ran chkdsk /f. I still got the popups on bootup and upon starting my two iterations of Eudora...

Thanks again for your help.

Jim
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If Eudora is the only program starting this I would suspect it.

Is any aspect of Eudora set to run on boot?

Why two iterations?

Any idea if installing this software started this problem?

1. Eudora is not the only program causing the popups. I started about 8 programs and about half caused the popups.
2. No aspect of Eudora is set to run on boot.
3. I run 2 iterations of Eudora, one for family personal email and the other for everything else. The family email I get from my ISP. The other email comes from Yahoo where I use their disposable email addresses that I can turn any one of the over 200 that are in use now off if I start getting spam on any of them. I give out email addresses that reflects the name of the company or business or forum or whatever in that email address. For example (this won't be a real or the actual email address) for this forum it would be something like abcdef-dal at yahoo.com. Yahoo's disposable email addresses are the next best thing since grammas apple pie. I rarely ever get a spam email anymore.

I have been running 2 iterations of Eudora for years with no problem and nothing about it has changed in years.

There are some thoughts coming back in my mind that may have something to do with the problem and I have been trying to recollect those thoughts. I have had this computer for almost 5 years now and way back shortly after I got it a friend installed an older copy Office XP Pro (like maybe 97 but am not sure about the year of the office program anymore) on here that he said was a legal copy that he owned and he had bought a newer copy of the same. I never ever had any problems with it and updated in online as updates became available. About a year or two ago I ordered from HP the WinXP CD's so I could reinstall WinXP because of some problems I was having. After the reinstall of XP everytime I wanted to use Word the Windows installer would start and then it would give me some error message that I don't remember anymore and Word would start. Well it took a long time to start and I got tired of that so I installed open office. So then being mad at the office program I decided to uninstall it but it asked for the CD and the guy never gave me the CD when he installed office in the first place. By then I was even madder at office and so I just deleted Office. I don't remember if this problem may have started about then or not. I had a hard time dredging up all of what I have said in this paragraph and I may be off on some of what I have said. I am so sorry and apologize about my poor memory. Some things stick better than other. It's awful to get old and have the memory go.

I hope that maybe the above is the cause of the problem and maybe stopping the popups can be stopped because I sure am getting sick of them...haha...

Jim
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Saw that and replied. Went to page 2 perhaps.

I saw your post after saying what I said previously and so I just edited it with answers to your questions and all of the info that was dredged up from my dumb memory.

I had a close friend who had his gall bladder out and when he was in the hospital he had a heart attack and then had open heart surgery this last summer. I got an email from him a day or so ago and he mentioned something about his bad July and that he was recovering nicely. I didn't know what he was talking about. Fortunately I keep emails in the trash for months and so I did a search for emails from him and read all about his health problems in July. I almost sent him an email asking what he was talking about. I'm telling you it is awful... Sorry to bore you with this crapola...haha...

You just made a lot of sense. Office would/could indeed be the issue.

Just to verify:

When you ran the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility there were no Office entries?

Darn I can't remember if there were any entries but it seems like if there any kind of entries that I would have noted it. Shall I run it again?

Yes please.

I am thinking some more and am thinking that I may even have ran the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility back sometime earlier on when I first started having these popups. I did a lot of searching on the Internet trying to find some relief from this problem and then finally gave up. Then I started in again searching the Internet for help some little time ago and then I ran the WICU again. Then while searching I stumbled on to this website and thought I would ask for help. I feel like I have really screwed things up and if you want to throw in the towel because I have probably screwed things up so badly I will wouldn't blame you and will understand. I just feel like there is nothing else that can be done and I guess it is something I can live with if I make up my mind to. After all I have already lived with this problem for a while...haha...

The Windows Installer Cleanup Utility is mainly geared to Office issues.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

If you have removed Office then you can remove all Office entries from this tool.

Once you reinstalled XP you would have needed to reinstall Office.

Unless you had the original Office disks then you would have had problems.

If the Installer Cleanup does not work then we can show you other places to find these entries but try the Installer Cleanup again first.

As said if you are not using Office you can remove any and all Office entries in the Installer Cleanup Utility.