Sidebar will not come on, the States 'settings.ini."being used by something else, what? How do you turn it off?

Settings.ini. How can you check it?

Restore point:

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

Read the above for a very good graph shows how backward more than 5 days in the System Restore Points by checking the correct box.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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    If they test OK, then let's see what you have running on your system at startup.  Go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx and download and install Autoruns (which is a FAR superior to Vista msconfig program) and see what to load at startup.  I bet there are a lot of things, you really don't need but installed by the manufacturer when you installed programs (sometimes just so they will begin more quickly when / if requested).  Some are inportant as Windows Defender and your software AV - but I bet that most of them aren't and they use valuable resources running in the background without valid reason.  When I checked my own system I ended up remove about 90% of the items in the start menu - and the system showed an improvement notice in reactivity.  Don't worry, you can always start almost all of the programs in the menu all programs (or you can add controls to the items or create new programs that you actually launched at startup with Autoruns.

    The advice that Michael Murphy gave you already should have cleaned most of all what could be slowing down your system - and the repair/upgrade system took care of all the corruption in files on your system. I'm honestly not Kow nothing else to try (with the exception of the material option described above).

    I hope this helps.

    Good luck!

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