my problems started with windows running extremely slow, is was taking around a minute or so to open any application and sometimes longer in internet explorer.
so in my infinate wisdom decided to restore the pc using the dell "as it came shipped" partition to start again, so far so good, but now after all the updates including drivers and so forth i get some error messages and other random stuff
i get the application failed to initialise (oxc0000017) with all applications
and
the application or dlll c:\windows\system32\ieframe.dll is not a valid windows image please check this against your instalation diskette
none of this happens all the time just randomly and sometimes it wont come out of standby so have to reboot
im running windows xp home version 5 (build 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100427-1636:service pack 3)
internet explorer 8 and windows mediaplayer 11
mcafee av and antimalwarebytes
apart from printer nothing else is on the pc