Desktop - Two Blocks With Red X's Inside
Jul 23, 2005i have two blocks with red x's inside them. how do i get rid of them?
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View 1 RepliesHi! After running a program called System Mechanic from Iolo technologies I discovered my computer had stopped working properly and kept telling me that files essential to the smooth running of windows had been changed. I did a system restore operation and almost everything went back to normal. The only exception is my desktop icons, and icons on the quick lanch bar. They're appearing inside white squares and not against the desktop wallpaper like they should almost as if the wallpaper has not loaded properly under the
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Do you have any clue why only some of my programs can access the internet? I do not use a firewall, nor a router.I use Windows XP Home Edition. However, for some reason, Windows (or something) just BLOCKS most of my programs. I have tried many things, and still, nothing has worked.
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My operating system:
Windows XP w/SP2
I was out of town all week; however, while using our PC Mon evening, a loud clunk noise from the tower; the screen went black; and when the screen came back up, everything was stretched out horizontally and concave.
Hubby tried booting it up it did come up with the image all broken into blocks and stretched horizontally and concave.
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If i were to remove the CPU to dust it and put it back , would it be like any other hardware, i.e. the memory where i can just remove it and put it back with no further actions to take, or is it way different?
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Information:
Gateway MX3701
-Windows XP
Probably caused by : ntoskrnl.exe ( nt+22f13 ) Minidump attached. (There were several, but they were all the same. This is the most recent one.)
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os: windows xp pro eng sp3 retail version (unattended)
As above seems to freeze. what could it be?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHello all,
I have an older computer, an AMD FX53 processor with 3gb ram, a Geforce 6800 Ultra on an AGP bus, and two 160gb hard drives running Raid 0, using Win XP home (OEM), SP2.
I recently replaced Norton Antivirus 2006 with Norton 360 on this older unit.
The first problem:
My wife ran into an error when booting up. The unit booted up to the screen where I see the Microsoft logo, and the horizontal progress bar...then the screen goes dark for maybe 30 seconds, and a blue screen comes up. The message
Unknown Hard Error
C0000218
flies by, and the unit reboots. Continuously.
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The second problem:
My wife tried to fix it by going into Setup. She said it had been happening once in a while, and she got past the problem by pressing ALT+F8, but it finally would not take that. So she got into Setup, and somehow ended up in the Set Up Password area. She got out of that by setting a password to enter Setup. She did not record the new password correctly.
So, I can't get into Setup to reset the unit to allow me to boot from the CD, so I can try my recovery disk (OEM version of Win XP.)
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I note another thread mentioning a problem like this called "New HD Needed" and a reply mentioning the use of www.ultimatebootcd.com to diagnose the problem.
I am not sure I understand the phrase "burning the iso" but I assume I can go to the site, download a file and burn it to disc? My new unit runs Win Vista HomePremium. I'll try to get that file and get it burned to disc using what comes with Vista.
But, is the Raid 0 arrangement on that old unit going to muck things up? And how do I get past the password protection on Setup to reset to boot from CD first? (Boots straight from hard drive presently.)
Thanks in advance !
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