How I prevented bad stuff on my XP machine
Bad a couple of yrs ago, I still has XP. I would document the number of processes going on. Check occasionally to see if there was something there that shouldn't be. Worst case was having to reload OS...
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Click "start", run Type in "msconfig". Click on "Start up". This will show everything that starts when you boot computer. There will be many programs running that are not necesssary.
