Regarding QRead, can anyone explain what the difference is between demo and paid ($30) mode? And now for an editorial comment: FS Reader worked very well for me for years. Now it is problematic.

 Oh yeah, it is still the operating system, just stripped down.

I did not think about an on line scanner. That should be the easiest and fastest method. But, will an on line scanner that is designed to work on full-blown Windows, actually work on a PE?

I didn't know that Windows defender would run on XP. But, why run two antivirus programs? Richard "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." -- from The Search for

 Here's a link to download the file. https://od.lk/d/N18xNjU2NDM5OTJf/XP-REG-Hack.REG You would just press enter on it and Windows will warn you about adding entries to the registry. Just in case

 32 Bit.

Well, if MS did stop the updates, XP computers with the hack should get the updates that were posted up to that stop date. Glenn

 You should be able to run the ones on that, just get on-line to update them, or run your own off-line scanner. Note, since WinPE runs only in RAM, the updates will be gone when you shut

according to https://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates- "Williams says that the hack, included just below, makes the system look like Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 which

 I hate to keep bringing up WinPE, but there are file recovery tools on the eSpeak images, not the Bryan Smart ones though. Glenn

OK, now you got me curious about a couple things. Ihave the Win10 PE from Carlos. Can I update any antivirus programs that are already on that PE? Or, is it possible for me to add my own

 As far as I know, I don't have a virus on this machine. And, I just recently debugged Outlook. I wonder if I should do that again, since I think that might have fixed it. Also, if I send this hard

QRead is a good little program that really doesn’t need much if any support to it to keep working at this point. It would of course be nice for it to get more updates and features, but as is, it

 Is your XP computer 32 bit or 64 bit?

 That only looks for corrupt system files that are normally unreachable while the computer is running.

 Registry hack that makes XP think it's a point of sale machine? I've never heard of that one before. No, I don't think I installed that one. The most recent thing I did with Windows is a SFC Scan,

 Anti-virus is all you need at startup. Did you ever install the registry hack that makes XP think it's a point of sale (POS) machine? Microsoft continued with those updates to XP until at least

 The strange part is, it didn't start doing this until a couble days ago. I have Automatic Updates turned off. The only thing I know of that I have running besides JAWS is Microsoft Security

You can use the winPE for win 7 to install XP. You could use the win 10 version too if you like.Once you get it all installed and the computer will reboot, you will have to bring up Narrator to finish

Friend had this problem with his vista and I am sure it was virus related. After reinstalling the operating system, the fan did not run so hard. Glenn