hi everyone

i was seasrching d net for som comp. tutorials and i stumbled across the site.read some forum questions and found all of them to be quite informative.

i have a recent developement(s roblem to b precise) and i would like to know more about it as i could not understand why they r happening


i hav a computer with a linux partition ,win2kproff and win xp(sp2).

i had deleted some folders and made som registry changes so my wordpad or office would throw up errors whenever i opened any files.

also my computer when starting used to take a long time sitting at "applying local settings" but i had no virus.

so i went ahead and formatted the whole drive.redid my partitions..made new partitions and

now i had put in win2k ...and dat went fine ...after i restarted my computer it still gave me an option whether i want to select win xp or win 2k while booting....dats was quite weird to me

also after i had freshly installed winxp(sp2) the application and system logs had some notification with root mentioned...
also after i installed word and tried to save d files it gave the same error message.dis time i didnt tamper with nethng...


so after formating the disc how come option of win xp was comin up at boot time and also why the same error message is reflected with wordpad and office docs.

earlier i had read about sony planting rrotkits in their laptops .does the root event log mean sp2 has also some rrotkits ??

i would be grateful if someone can please throw light on my issues...


i was using the default boot loader when my sys was with linux

thank you