Alrighty, lemme see if I can explain this right... Okay, so last month my comp started screwing up royally, right? The sound was skipping and pausing, none of my programs would work without a reboot if the comp went into hibernation for even a second, I had an insane amount of processes running at Windows startup (thanks to the spyware that was snuck in through my fiance's short-lived porn phase) yadda yadda... Anywhos, I ran a virus scan yesterday and found a bunch of not good stuff on my comp (94 infected files, 92 fixed, 2 quarantined, thanks to a trojan horse) Needless to say, I deleted everything that was quarantined and infected (nothing important, just some c-coms, spyware, stuff like that) That seemed to have pissed off my comp, because it started acting up worse. It would take 30-45 seconds between clicking a quick launch icon and having the program actually open, 3 minutes to sign onto AOL, 15 seconds to show desktop, etc. I tried system recovery, all 11 available restore points, and they all gave me an unable to restore error. Now, my version of XP came with my comp when I bought it, so I had no way of repairing XP with a setup cd, nor do I have the money to buy a new copy thanks to me being 8 months prego, but I found the i386 folder in my comp with the XP setup file, so I ran it, got everything reinstalled, rebooted my comp, and noticed XP was installed twice. I've seen the other posts on here by people with similar problems, and I've already taken care of the whole boot.ini thing. Before I "reinstalled" XP I burned all my important files to cd's, and when I went to add them back in to my comp (seeing as how my programs list in the Start menu only had like 3 things, when just yesterday I had over 400 programs installed) I saw that everything was still there. If that confused you, lemme explain: I went into my computer, clicked C:, and saw EVERYTHING that was there BEFORE I "reinstalled" XP. So my question is... How do I transfer (or access) all my program files on the previous installation of XP to (or with) the new installation on XP? I'd really appreciate any help, thanks.