Good luck.
Posted on 11/30/2004 9:01:52 PM PST by jdm
Wish I could help, but I just spent 7 Hours trying to install the %#@$!!!*&^?!?#$%@&%! XP Service Pack, and then had to uninstall it!
MAC is looking better all the time!
I'll have to get you a screen capture of what my computer screen looks like. It's too much. I installed SP2 a few months ago. I had trouble with it at first; I had to uninstall it twice and then the third time was the charm!!!
Do they have a ~host~ around them?
Restart your computer and get into safe mode by holding down on F8.
More details are available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222
Do a virus scan if you can from the safe mode boot. You won't have access to the internet, so you can head to bed.
Finally, drag your pointer to the very bottom of the screen. While pressing the left mouse button, drag your mouse upward. This may fix your "Start" button problem.
An incomplete defrag can kill your hard drive. This happened to me a year ago, and I lost everything. Sounds like you aren't in as bad a shape as I was.
Backup your data, reformat your drive, and reinstall XP and your programs. Your system will run a lot better anyway.
I think I'm screwed. I can't even open up a JPG file on my desktop. It says "reinstall app(lication)."
Hmmm, that's odd, almost sounds like a virus. Maybe you could boot with a start up disk and try to fix it through text commands.
Thanks, Scott. I'll try that. I remember going into safe mode via MSCONFIG, at times, but I can't even get into start > "run" right now. Even the volume icon near the clock doesn't work.
I wonder if you haven't managed to size your desktop resolution to a nonstandard size not appropriate for your monitor. Can you get to that control panel? Right click the desktop - properties - settings.
Good luck.
Why do you defrag every week? A bit obsessive isn't it?
Try a system restore. It worked for me when my cat turned my display 90 degrees by sitting on my keyboard.
I "feel your pain" having just re-installed XP-Pro just a few days ago.
The way you describe the event I wonder if you didn't have a power problem. Do you have your system on a UPS?
Was that John Kerry's Foreign Affairs advisor?!?
(Or the minister that married him to Lady Ketchup?)
System Restore is a good suggestion if it isn't turned off. It isn't perfect, but can be helpful if applications were changed. I wouldn't think it would fix a corrupt file allocation table, though.
To get to it without the Start button, go into your "My Computer" icon and go into the Control Panel there.
it wouldn't hurt to do a scandisk next time you restart. You can set it to do this automatically by going into My computer, choose tools, choose scandisk. It will think about it a minute, then tell you it doesn't have the resources right now. You will have the option to run it on restart. Choose yes/ok
To get to it without the Start button, go into your "My Computer" icon and go into the Control Panel there.
I'm inside the control panel under "system" -- I can't find a way to restore, though. I have 4 tabs: hardware, advanced, system restore and remote. When going to the system restore tab, there's not really an option there to undo anything. Perhaps I'm looking under the wrong icon/tab in the control panel. Thanks again for your posts, everyone.
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