I'm having multiple difficulties with a Dell Inspiron E1405 running Windows XP SP3. The most noticeable symptom is that Internet Explorer and Firefox will crash whenever a trying to search using Google, Yahoo, etc. in the toolbar or in the browser. Some pages also will not load completely. These problems occur both on a regular boot of XP or in Safe Mode. System Restore opens, but it will not let me click "Next" after selecting a date to restore to. The program just hangs. Nothing happens. Again, regular boot or Safe Mode still causes the same problems. AntiVir virus scanner and Ad-aware scans located some small issues but they were deleted. Additional scans (with XP booted in Safe Mode) do not locate any bad files. Spybot S&D will not open. I was able to uninstall Spybot and install it again, but the program still will not load, on a regular boot of XP or in Safe Mode. Any questions or additional troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Try emptying your browser cache. You can use disk cleanup or CCleaner slim.