Posted on 10/17/2009 10:12:59 AM PDT by Spacetrucker
is a consrvative forum dedicated to political issue sthe best place for that?
Would you trust a lib to give you important technical help?
That screen lag indicates that the correct video driver’s not installed and a generic one is installed. Sounds like this guy did a “repair” and not a fresh install.
point well taken - objection withdrawn
If the concern is the data DO NOT REFORMAT!!!
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When you reinstall Windows (as opposed to doing a "repair" from the install CD), the registry and other configuration files are recreated just like a fresh install. So while the programs and document files (Word and Firefox, lets say, and Word docs) are still on the hard drive (you can navigate to their directory in Explorer -- maybe this is what you mean by still "seeing" them), some parts of Windows that they need to run have been erased. Most programs will not run in this mode. You'd need to reinstall all the programs to recreate the registry entries and so on.
I wouldn't trust a lib to get me a cup of coffee. They'd probably bring me some kind of latte macchiado frufru doohickey with a half gainer.
The internet problem may be due to not have the appropriate network card drivers (NIC) installed. A lot of factory systems have three recovery disks.
One for the OS, one for factory installed applications and one for factory installed harware.
One way to check this is to right mouse click on “MY Computer” left click on “manage” then click on “Device Manager.” Any incorrectly installed devices will show up with a yellow error message.
If you don’t have the correct disk to install device drivers, go to the manufacturer’s web site with one of your other computers and download the correct driver.
If you can see it but can’t get to it, then the permissions may be off due to reinstallation. Basically, Windows honors file permissions, but those accounts that had permissions don’t exist anymore due to reinstallation.
First, log on as an account with Administrator privileges. Right-click on a folder, click Properties. If you see something about simple or advanced sharing and security, go to advanced. I can’t remember the instructions for the dumbed-down simple security UI.
Click on the Security tab. If you see a bunch of accounts listed that are just numbers, then I’m probably right about the permissions problem.
Try to add yourself with “Full Control” permissions. If that doesn’t work, go back and click the Advanced button. Go to the Owner tab and click Add. Put your account in. You are now the owner and should be able to access the folder, if CREATOR OWNER had permissions on it. If not, go back and try again to add yourself with Full Control permissions. You should be able to do it now that you’re owner.
If all that works, and permissions was the problem, you should be able to access your files.
I want to offer my heartfelt thanks for all of your help and apologies for troubling you all ... My problem was solved by actually installing the drivers for the motherboard, which were on a separate disk - it was a custom-built computer, and they needed to be installed after Windows was fixed. Geez I feel like a big dummy X-P~
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