It seems now that I need Ghost to do something which I do not know if it can…I try to be as brief as I can. I have XP SP3. Recently, something has happened to my windows explorer …When I open it up and click on My Computer, I get the wavy flashlight which takes almost a minute to open all my files and folders. I do not have this problem when I click on My Documents…so in affect, I am reluctant to reinstall XP for the tedious work that will entail. I checked and did some tweaking suggested by microsoft to fix it and it has not worked. The flashlight even appears, when i want to …ie send a jpg or open a jpg …other than that, XP seems to be alright. I defragged, malware removal if it is a virus cause…My question is that would Ghost help me in a situation like this or do I have to bite the bullet and reinstall XP? Obviously, if I do with Ghost, it would copy whatever the problem is that I have. Disappointed really…when I bought Ghost, I thought my problems in the event such as this or a crash would be solved.