Posted on 07/14/2007 9:42:44 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Run System Restore and try to back up your software to an earlier date and see if it clears things. Also try the file system verification tool in the system information program.. both of these are in the accessories folder.
See post 26. I’ve done several System Restores. I decided to go back to 7/1 since that date was before my problems started on 7/3. When Sys Restore got to about 80 percent, it gave me a message telling it could not complete the restore. I then tried to undo that restore and it also did not work. Much to my surprise, my computer has worked OK today. I keep waiting for the blue screen to pop up at any time. Will try the file system verification tool. Have not heard of this one before.
Good luck with that and there is always the reformat and clean install which i know is a bitter pill but sometimes the only to fix this.
OK. So what do you mean by reformat and clean install? Does this mean I lose everything I have stored on the HD? I presume I can save things to a disk first before reformatting? I certainly hope I can find all of the disks to do a new install. Bummer. Thanks for your suggestions. Much appreciated here.
Do some serious research before you do that -- I too have a new laptop with Visduh. I own a copy of XP with COA from a previous laptop that died, and I was thinking about reformatting and putting XP on my new Visduh-infected laptop.
However, two different people have told me that there is something coded into the chipset on Visduh machines so that XP won't work on them, and that you won't be able to get drivers that work for the various components of the computer. However, I don't know if that is accurate or not.
He has a Mac!
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