Loginname,

For your low resources problem, go to the second link below my signature. You will probably find some things which may ease that problem.

If Scandisk (I assume that's what you mean when you refer to system scan) stops at the same point it may indicate a damaged area of your hard disk. How long are you waiting when it stops? For a good tutorial on configuring Scandisk, go here. You might also try running a thorough Scandisk after closing down all running programs except Systray and Explorer using Ctrl-Alt-Delete, turning off your screensaver (set it to None), and seeing if it will complete.

To make certain the problem isn't related to a virus, do a thorough virus scan using the latest virus definitions. That will at least remove one unknown from the equation.

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