I have a Compaq computer with XP home. It has a 2.4 G Intel chip with 512 MByte ram and lowest speed DSL, a CD R/W and DVD drive.
I had been having issues with a very long boot up time and so defeated all the startup applications about 1 month ago.
This made the computer run just great. I use it mostly for internet acces, some document printing and digital photos.
Yesterday I realized that I had also turned off my Synantec Antivirus. Also yesterday I received the latest Windows download upgrade. I reconfigured the system bootup to enabll all startup proccesses so that I could later run my antivirus. At shutdown the little icon was present to install the up grade and then shutdown. I clicked on this and left. Last night when I first turned the computer on after this shutdown, I had lost all of my drivers. There is no internet access, I cannot print and I cannot even load a disc onto the computer. When you put a dics in it says that the Install Wizard is not installed.
Also, the processor was sitting doing nothing using 100% of CPU. I am at work right now and do not remember the two programs. However two programs, one of which was STARTEAK.exe and another were each using exactly 50% of the CPU.
Any suggestions?