ok, heres the crack! Ive got a farily old laptop but it can still hold its own (well it could before it got fucked!) It seems to be stuck in a loop cycle, when you turn the computer on it goes to scan disk (as if it was not shut down) but it never completes itself and merely crashes halfway through. i wanted to defrag my hard drive and clean up some files but it wont let do this until scan disk has been completed! so im kinda stuck! i think it has a bad sector on the hard drive because it wont let me install large programs. on top of all this i have an undeletable file that keeps loading the internet browser up every 15 minutes to a crap wow-acces page which is obviously fuilling my laptop with unwanted crap. any ideas? bin it? or should i save up for a new one?