For controling spam check out www.spampal.com Fairly easy to setup/use within outlook or outlook express. Note it only filters the email to another folder, doesn't actually block it.
Scandisk is a pain and will do that. Just tell it to keep going. If you have your windows boot cd. You can try booting off the cd, going into the recovery mode option, then when you get to the command prompt, run this command chkdsk /p this will check your hard drive for problems.
Also, in windows you can try running SFC (start, click on run, type sfc /scannow) Note you will also need the system cd for this as well.
Hopefully you have already scanned for viruses & spyware before doing the above steps.
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