Do yourself a favour mate. Back up files and reinstall.
XP corrupted then fixed is never fixed. John without doubt knows his stuff. But now you have your OS back, back up your files and motherboard drivers and reinstall imo. XP is old as hell, and really you'll get confirmed virus free massive performance improvements by doing so.
Up to you, but i wouldn't have spent a week on what is a 3 hour fix by reinstalling. Now you might be free of issues, might not. Reinstall dude.
you can always partition the harddrive, resinstall windows and then move files and 'crap' as you call it, in your own time
Download on a USB (SATA on a floppy) all your latest hardware drivers, chipset, ethernet etc, and reinstall windows bro. Even better, shell out if you can afford it on Win 7 and be done with the worst version of win xp ever - 64 bit.
PM'd
edit- and john never said I was good, but he stopped telling me what to do, and I would assume that means I don't need to do anything? If he tells me I have more to do, then I'll do it.
The last thing I asked was if you had any more issues then you said you had popups about updating drivers and some java update. I couldn't find any driver update programs on your system and not sure about the java update. Until I can see screenshots of what these popups are, I can't tell you what do next. I'm working with limited info here. Have you checked the msconfig utility for any weird entries?
AND PLEASE DON'T EDIT OUT ALL YOUR POSTS LIKE YOU ALREADY HAVE!!! If there is any information that you don't want people to see then just edit out that particular thing. Now for me to go back to your logs I have to view your edit history, and its a lot harder to do that.
Ok bro, read and understood.
In that case (with the XP cd in the drive)
Run CMD in admin and type:
sfc /scannow
Then run restart and run windows update.
Yeah i agree. John spends lots of time helping. You must always be transparent.
Just let me know if anything pops up.