Greeting's

I'm sorry I couldn't get a better Subject for the thread but anyway..

I've windows XP with all the patches. I wanted to uninstall some program's so I opened up Add/Remove but after about 10 minutes of waiting the list didn't get populated... I tried a reboot but still there is nothing that comes up in the list.. it just keeps on showing "please wait while the list is getting populated" thats it. The CPU usage goes upto 50-60 %


For security reasons I have switched off system restore. The last backup I took is a week old and I have got lot of important data in this week. Although I've a separate drive for the system, software, data etc I'm not too worried the problem is I work during the night. I have tutions and job during the day so I cant spend time backing up stuff again then re-installing windows, patching it up.. rebooting couple of million times and all.

I'm googling for the problem right now if anyone has any idea please let me know its urgent... (and its almost 2 in the morning here and the office starts at 7 for me)