Nasties ID'd - no Task Mgr. - no idea what's wrong

[stargazer777]

Thanks again, Fink.

My objective for the 160GB HDD (which I wish to re-install) is to retain:

1.) All data files, including types such as MS Word docs, Acrobat/PDF files, Excel files, etc.
2.) Graphics and photo files such as BMP, GIF and JPG files
3.) Music and other sound files, such as WAV, mp3 and others

I wouldn't mind getting rid of installed apps and reinstalling them, but I'd want to be able to view them and make a small list of what I need to reinstall.

I really hate the thought of wiping the drive clean and reformatting. This is not only a terrible task in itself, but backing up the existing files (which I mentioned above) would be a tremendous job. My initial thought is to somehow put this off until I can buy a large (500GB?) USB HDD for archiving.

Just my $0.02 . . .

Thanks again,
Dave