Massive computer issues for me
Friday, January 23, 2004 by CerebroJD | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Yesterday I was surfing the net minding my own business, when all of the sudden I get a whole bunch of pop-ups. I began closing out of them, but one thing led to another, and somehow, I ended up installing something pretty dangerous I think. I think that because last night at 8 oclock our time, my computer decided to freeze up on my dad (while I was at work). So he restarted it, and now I cannot log into either of the two users on the computer. It simply freezes up before it has a chance to do anything besides display the "Loading personal settings..." dialog. Anyways, I tried to get in via Safe Mode to recover some of my data, but it still wont let me into my user. It will let me into the other user, but since all my files in my user are protected, I cant access or copy them to another computer on our home network. So this has left me in a fine situation. 1) No backups. (doh!) 2) No access to files. 3) Possible reformat on the horizon.
Oh yeah! I also ran three different virus scans from the other user, and all showed up with no results. Nothing new in msconfig that I could find, and when I did a system restore, nothing changed for the better.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have caused this monumental catastrophe? Any help would be appreciated. With luck, I will be able to figure out some way into the system, but things arent looking good at the moment.
CerebroJD crosses fingers
Oh yeah! I also ran three different virus scans from the other user, and all showed up with no results. Nothing new in msconfig that I could find, and when I did a system restore, nothing changed for the better.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have caused this monumental catastrophe? Any help would be appreciated. With luck, I will be able to figure out some way into the system, but things arent looking good at the moment.
CerebroJD crosses fingers
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kona0197
Reply #122 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:39 PM
Reply #122 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:39 PM
yes. windows xp will set up a new one for you.
CerebroJD
Reply #124 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:43 PM
Reply #124 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:43 PM
I now have two options for the new windows partition:
NTFS file system (Quick)
NTFS file system
Whats the difference?
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NTFS file system (Quick)
NTFS file system
Whats the difference?
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c242
Reply #125 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:46 PM
Reply #125 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:46 PM
quick is if you already have formated ntfs before. no need to do a long format then. 
CerebroJD
Reply #126 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:47 PM
Reply #126 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:47 PM
So I can do "quick" then?
Nevermind, got the answer....
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Nevermind, got the answer....
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kongit
Reply #128 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:02 PM
Reply #128 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:02 PM
travis speels jus fyne.
And I did a full format just to err on the side of caution. I didn't mind waiting a while. I had a book.
And I did a full format just to err on the side of caution. I didn't mind waiting a while. I had a book.
CerebroJD
Reply #129 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:26 PM
Reply #129 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:26 PM
I'm done. I've got my internet up and and running and I'm happy to say that I'm typing this from the newly reformatted computer. Thanks for your help guys!
Plop2
Reply #133 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:19 PM
Reply #133 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:19 PM
If you had a NTFS before you can do a quickie if you didn't you need to do a full. The basic difference is the quickie deletes existing info and the full runs a conversion and deletes.
WHOOOPS didn't see had already done this. Great Job.....
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WHOOOPS didn't see had already done this. Great Job.....
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wombat_1
Reply #134 Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:05 PM
Just a little registry hack ....
Reply #134 Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:05 PM
| Do you mean you don't register the software? I thought XP had to be activated within 30 days by internet or by phone. |
Just a little registry hack ....
Essencay
Reply #135 Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:48 PM
Reply #135 Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:48 PM
hear no evil
speak no evil
hear no evil
speak no evil
hear no evil
speak no evil
speak no evil
hear no evil
speak no evil
hear no evil
speak no evil
CerebroJD
Reply #137 Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:42 PM
Reply #137 Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:42 PM
How can you not see evil? My names all over this thread!
kona0197
Reply #138 Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:51 PM
Reply #138 Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:51 PM
no I am the evil one. you are just a moserate version of me! hehehe 
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Reply #121 Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:34 PM