On a dell w/intel mm3(?) a friend has yahoo Messenger it lately always starts with 'chkdsk' I have run fixIt program NO GOOD RESULTS. Coes back corrupt yahoomexxenger.exe, then nowcorrupt fixit.exe. Have run disk scan, says good, chkdsk say bad ntsf? Attempting tp learm and the attempt is taching me I havemore to learn than I have questions.

yahoomexxenger.exe is not a valid file. unless you deliberately misspelled it which is not a wise thing to do when asking for help then i suggest that you have some malicious software and should run all your clean up programs and even anti virus to clean your system! In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Sounds like an infection of some sort to me. I'd run the usual anti-virus, malware scan sets and get clean. OR, maybe try this: CLICK "My Computer" and right click on the drive in question. CLICK Properties, Tools, Error-checking. Then the option to check for and recover bad sectors. Need to reboot, if system drive. You can also boot from the XP INSTALL CD, select repair and them select command line. Run chkdsk /? for the options. For repairing errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, at the command prompt, type chkdsk yourdriveletter: /r press ENTER. Also, the download PartitionMagic can do a bad sector re-test.

Sorry for the mis-spelling. Have it working correctly now. Not sure of what did it or how it returned to normal? Really appreciate the help. Thank You. Attempting to learn and the attempt is teaching me I have more to learn than I have questions.