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Worked with computers for years and the best advice I can give, even though you won't want to hear it is:

Flatten and rebuild.



If there's not irreplaceable data on that box, that ain't bad advice. Computers can use a reset back to where everything is clean, fresh, and newly installed occasionally.

Well, if you saved the CD that came with the box that let's you re-install the OS, and still have the install info for any commercial software you bought, etc.. If you didn't, it's time to start looking for a way to migrate stuff you have all the install stuff for...

When you buy a new computer, you should keep one of the small boxes that comes with it and throw all the install CD's in there. When shit like this happens, you go back in the back of your closet to get it, making damn sure to put it all back in the box and the closet when you're done.