Youre problem(s) exist in youre 3rd party software,conflicting with what
xp already can do.Try removing the cd writing software,as for mcafee,that
software by itself is a joke,& if it now comes with diskcleanup,give it the
deep
six.Since when does anti-virus software have/get the ability to manage the
OS hard drives.....

"Quarterback" wrote:

> I can read disks on my CD Player, but cannot copy to Cd any more. When I
> click on "My Computer" I get only part of the screen and the program hangs
> up. Once today, the screen did open and I copied one file to the staging
> area ready to copy to a CD. When I tried to copy that to the CD/RW, the
> program stopped responding.
> I have been using Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 to burn disks. When it could
> not work, I tried using the Windows XP way and generally have been stopped at
> the first step, "open My Computer".
> I ran McAfee's disk cleanup yesterday and it wiped out all old Restore
> points so I can't go back to before this started. I also downloaded Service
> Pack 3 yesterday, but it had no effect on the problem. Is there an update to
> the software in that part of Windows XP that might help me?
>
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