My daughter shut the power off during shutdown.Now the Personal Computer won't reboot. The screen comes up asking what mode you want to boot up in.No matter what you select it loops back.The Personal Computer is a Gateway with Windows XP Media.It didn't come with recovery cds, only blank ones to make your own.I just got off the phone with CS and they are sending me recovery cds but it will take about a week to get.Is there any other way to fix this without using the recovery cds ?
a Dell XPS 400 w/ Windows XP Media Edition, became infected with Personal Guard spyware.....Tried to remove with MalWare Bytes but it wouldn't let me get to the .exe file for it.... Tried deleting the files, and registry data for it....still didn't work....Finally the machine shut down and now wil not boot up..... The Dell POST screen loads, but then it sticks trying to load Windows.
I've lost my user profile settings on booting up my computer in windows xp pro. Now it loads the packard bell desktop instead of my own. How do I get it back to the way it was
I am having a major problem logging into windows. When I get to the log on screen, and click my user name (the only one available) it gets stuck on "loading personal settings".My first reaction was to boot from CD, at which point I could not get my USB keyboard to work during the boot which made it impossible to "hit any key to boot from CD", so I fixed that by plugging the keyboard into the default keyboard port with an adaptor. When I managed to boot from CD, I tried to do a repair install and got the message "Setup cannot find Hard disks bla bla cannot continue, windows will restart".
i have xp sp2 the other day zone alarm had an update, which i preformed but did not reboot at that moment. then i ran system mechanic6 total care program. then i restarted my computer. here is where my problem comes in my computer will continually goes to the screen that states in 30 seconds your system will start in normal mode(it does not) then when it did that for 5x, i tried last known 3x(it did not work),then safe mode then safe mode with network, then safe mode with command prompt.
When I turn on my computer, it goes into a 4 bit resolution mode and when I go to control panel / display to change the resolution the bar won't move ; it wont allow me to change it. there was also a message about the computer not being able to find some PCI device all of a sudden, not too sure what that is all about.Really trying to avoid formatting.
My computer seems to be in a mess and I have absolutely no idea why.It will only start in Safe Mode, trying last known configuration and normal start ups cause it to freeze atthe loading screen.It started when my computer randomly froze up while I was using it. I tried rebooting it but only safe mode worked, however when I left it alone for a couple of hours it worked normally for around 10 minutes, then froze up again.I thought it could be overheating so I left it for the night, but its still not booting up normally.I've tried using msconfig to make it do a diagnostic startup but that doesn't work either.
I installed a required update for MSN Messenger and after I rebooted the computer, it won't load into Windows and gives me the following error Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEMYou can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup using the original setup CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.How can i fix this problem with the CD? I tried the recovery console, but it is just a command prompt.
Laptop (running Windows XPHome Edition) has developed some problem so that he can't get it to boot up; not even in Safe Mode.He doesn't have his installation disk with him, stuck with a dead computer.
I'm getting a WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM message all of a sudden!DESPERATELY need to copy some personal files somewhere before trying to restore / reformat
Im trying to boot a Win2k computer... It hangs at the Windows 2000 prompt with the blue bar going across the screen... I can boot into safe mode but not regular mode...
my computer was infected with -powered by Zeno' spyware and I was advised to start in safe mode to remove some files. I ticked safemode under boot.ini in msconfig and my computer restarted, but only got as far as the Windows XP loadup page before rebooting itself. I have tried 'last known good configuration' etc, but to no avail... the computer simpl will not get past this point. I decided to reinstall (repair) Windows XP, but unfortunately, I cannot do this because it reaches a screen where it says setup cannot complete under safe mode. I can't turn this safemode off though, because I can't get the computer on to reaccess boot.ini.
I am trying to get into the computer administrator account, so I Can change my limited account to an administrator account as well, but I can't get to the screen that says I can go into safe mode...When I press F8 during startup, this screen comes up.Then when I go to start -> Run -> MSCONFIG I'm not allowed to because I am not a computer administator. My computer is an My computer is an HP Pavilion a562n It has an ASUS motherboard I think?
Having a problem with my friends personal computer. He has a Fujitsu Siemens 'Cordant' Personal Computer which was not booting up at all. I managed to fix this and install the xp home recovery disk that came with the personal computer. Unfortunately he now needs XP Pro which hangs at "press any key to boot from cd" when i put it in his machine. The cd itself is in perfect working order and will boot on other computers. All hardware is fine as XP home installed fine and when i try to press enter to boot from cd, the computer makes a beeping noise so the keyboard is recognized.
I have a laptop with an 80gb hdd and 25gb used. It used to be really quick but now it has gone really slowly apart from Defragment and Disk Cleanup what can I do.
I bought a computer from a company & it was a network. Now I am the only one using it so how do I remove the last administrator As it is now, I can't install any programs
i want to known what to disable in start up tab and also in the services tab when 1>system running slow 2>start up error also i want to known wat to keep checked in the start up tab in system confuration utility is there any site where i can see it or any site where i will get the information about this
The other day I was sitting there playing world of war-craft like any other day, when my personal computer just freezes and nothing works, so I do a hard boot.I was using windows vista at this stage and every time the loading bar would come up, it would go away like windows was about to load and then it would just sit on a endless black screen. After going into safe mode and doing a system restore I was able to get in to windows once before it froze up on another game, I spent 2 days trying to get into windows before reformatting to windows xp.So, after reformatting and putting windows xp on, everything seemed fine, did my windows updates and all the updates for my mobo etc, had the personal computer running for about 6 hours with no problems, go to play world of war-craft and within 5 mins my personal computer froze again. So back to the same problem, except this time the bar loads and i get a blue screen that comes up sometimes, but its only up for about 1 second before windows restarts again. It just keeps going to the windows loading bar, will freeze for 2-3 seconds, continue to load and then restart again by itself. I left it on for about an hour of cycling through by itself but windows still wont load.World of war-craft is on a 2nd HD that hasn't been reformatted, I thought this might be the cause but my personal computer also froze when I was just browsing the net and had the same problem loading windows.Any suggestions? because I'm a bit lost at the moment with what to do, the only other thing I can think of to be the cause would be my ram or gfx card dying? but I hope that's not the case.
I am using Windows XP Home SP3.I have just bought a new 250gb external Hard disk and would like to back up my entire personal computer in case of any viruses or Hard Disk problems.I have heard of Acronis but it's 39.99 is there a any free software out there?
I'm sure this has been covered many times, but I'm new to this NG and I just got a new computer with XP on it. The thought of transferring data from my old Personal Computer with SE to XP seems daunting. I thought I could hook up my old HD with a USB 2 external enclosure and transfer data that way. Would that work?
Have 2 personal computer's both have XP SP2 using eTrust AZ Armor with it's FW being a rebadged ZoneAlarm or so I've been told. I've checked the settings on each personal computer FW, and they appear to be the same. Also, on each personal computer in Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Multimedia, Show Pictures is selected.There is a car forum that we like and some of the members post image attachments, but from one personal computer the images cannot be viewed. Images are able to be viewed that are posted directly into the message, but the ones with attachments show up as Attached Thumbnails with a blank rectangular box below. On the other personal computer, on the exact same posting I see Attached Images and in the rectangular box are .jpg links that I can open.Any suggestions as to what settings need to be changed to be able to view them from both personal computer's?
The problem that I am having is with my HP Pavilion XT983 Desktop Computer. It will not boot up when I power it on. The power light is on and the monitor is in sleep mode. The only thing that is operating is the fan. I have tried rebooting with the boot up diskette but it is not reading my A: drive. It also will not read CDs.
I had been away from my computer for about an hour and when i returned the screen was black and nothing would change it so hit the restart button. When the computer started up, I first saw the usual blue dell logo-screen, however, the next screen was the windows 98 startup logo-screen. The computer then entered DOS mode and at the top of the screen it says Microsoft Windows 98. This problem persists every time i start the computer. I only have 1 primary partion and i installed XP on it from a clean install by using a win98 bootdisk to format and running winnt from the i386 folder of the xp cd. When i try to enter SAFE MODE the computer goes to the Win 98 start-up logo screen again and enters DOS again. I know that all my files are still on the HDD because i can navigate through them. All i really want to do is somehow save some files that are on te HDD so i can just format and reinstall XP.
After getting this downloader virus which was picked up by norton and dispensed with, the personal computer began to slow up to a crawl. I am wondering if damage or sorts was done before it was removed. The available physical memory dropped to around 30M and the virtual memory is to the max and that seems to help. The operating system is XP pro with service pack 2.
I know you all are always up to date onto personal computer things and news about it.But lets fly up the imaginations, and wonders.Lets say, There's a new windows version, the newest, the 2008.What would you hope that in that version would appear?What hopes you have! what do you think it will appear.
I am going to upgrade my Personal Computer, my current Personal Computer is old and i am thinking of replacing the Hard Drive, the thing is that my current Hard Drive has XP on it and i was supplied no disk. My current Personal Computer Does not support 2 Hard Disk so i cannot back up, so what can i do, is there a way i can make a XP disk from the XP files on my Personal Computer?
My grandson and my daughter decided that Personal Computer weighted down so decided to clean it up.What they didn't do was add/remove programs and delete most junk first.What they did do was try to reinstall XP on top of XP.I was thinking they would delete,reformat and re-install.We now have message saying that XP cannot load windows,because a Dll is missing.Cannot get into safe mode to get into control panel to delete,reformat and reinstall.Have genuine microsoft windows XP.Or any way I can get windows 98 back onto machine,to restart Windows for which I have a boot disk.Exactly what have I to do to try to get machine operational.
How can i get a cd for win xp home as the system never came with it and now I have to reload.I have the product key on the dell personal computer case?
I try to keep personal financial info off my computer, but I'm not sure of success. Is the a web page or similar source that will tell me how to systematically remove every instance of credit card and/or password or anything else important from my computer.
