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+====== 10-things-you-can-do-when-windows-xp-wont-boot ======
+http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-things-you-can-do-when-windows-xp-wont-boot/6031733
+January 26, 2006, 8:00am PST
+Note: This article is also available as a download.
+When your computer hardware appears to power upokay, but the Windows XP operating system won't boot properly,
+====== Installer always starts up ======
+http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Installation
+msiexec
+Try cleaning up the installer. Click start/run, type services.msc and click "ok". Scroll down to "Windows Installer" and double click it. Stop the service if it is running, set the startup type line to disabled. Click apply/ok and reboot.
+Delete the contents of the temp folders, there may be a file in there interfering with the setup routine of the installer. Check both:
+C:\Windows\temp
+C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\local settings\temp
+====== how-to-see-hidden-files-in-windows ======
+http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-see-hidden-files-in-windows/
+===== Referencing Download the unhide.exe program from Bleeping Computer =====
+keyword: virus hidden
+http://techlogon.com/2011/06/07/folders-and-documents-hidden-by-virus/
+http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/unhide.exe
+====== Svchost.exe in Windows ======
+http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056
+Tasklist /SVC
+Svchost.exe is a process on your computer that hosts, or contains, other individual services that Windows uses to perform various functions.
+http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/
+Some time ago, Microsoft started moving all of the functionality from internal Windows services into .dll files instead of .exe files. From a programming perspective this makes more sense for reusability… but the problem is that you can’t launch a .dll file directly from Windows, it has to be loaded up from a running executable (.exe). Thus the svchost.exe process was born.
+http://svchostviewer.codeplex.com/
+A program to see what all those svchost.exe are running.