Talk:Windows XP/Drive Failure

Welcome to the Troubleshooting Windows XP talk page. I've started this book largely to separate the "Troubleshooting" section out of the Windows manual that's in progress, which I'm also contributing to. The "Performance" section of that manual will, likewise, also probably be pulled out at some point. Please feel free to contribute, question, or correct! Cheers, Matt "Breakpoint" Heck 27OCT2004

Change Discussion
"Odds are that you will have spyware on your system. Anyone who browses the internet for any length of time generally does." -- This is simply not true. This should be replaced with a list of symptoms users may experience when spyware is running. For example, "If you find that pop-up advertisements are appearing inexplicably, you may have spyware on your computer..." -- Micah Henning

New Layout
It is of my opinion that readers of this book may, more often than not, be looking for a solution to a problem the users have recently incurred. Therefore, this book should be structured based on symptom and/or the location of the symptom.

For example, if my copy of Windows XP does not boot (the symptom), I will immediately navigate to a section within this book that talks about what to do when Windows does not boot. Under this section, one may find subsections like "Due to a Bluescreen failure" or "Without any symptoms."