Major computer problem

[Jersey Girl]

So, I went to bed one night and my computer was fine (only turned off the monitor). Woke up the next morning and things were nuts. The computer is not recoginzing any installed programs. It did bring up all the documents I saved to my desktop, but it did not save my screen saver and it does not run any MS Office programs. I had to reinstall the printer and the anti virus software keeps telling me to reinstall.

Should I be concerned or just reinstall everything?

 

[Gee!]

run for your life, its gonna explode!

 

[Ryanwb]

What operating system are you running?

 

[Jersey Girl]

What operating system are you running?

Um, I don't know, lol. I am a moron.

 

[Gee!]

What operating system are you running?

Um, I don't know, lol. I am a moron.

windows xp? windows 2000?

 

[Jersey Girl]

Xp

 

[Gee!]

Xp

Thats what ryan wanted to know lol.. guess we'll wait for his next check in in about 2 hours for his next question lol..

 

[Ryanwb]

When you reboot and see the windows XP screen, starting hitting F8 like it's going out of style. Select "last known good configuration". However since you've had a successful login it is possible this won't work. In that case we'll have to just restore everything

 

[Jersey Girl]

When you reboot and see the windows XP screen, starting hitting F8 like it's going out of style. Select "last known good configuration". However since you've had a successful login it is possible this won't work. In that case we'll have to just restore everything

Gracias!!!

 

[BIGTONY]

I Would Restore The Computer To The Prev Day.so If It Broke On Saturday Restore The Computer Back To The Prev Day..thats What I Would Do..

 

[Covert Rain]

Even if restoring works make sure you run a virus scan anyway. Try a boot scan or boot up scan if your virus software has it. Even if you get it running again, I would be concerned with what caused it in the first place.

 

[UncleChris]

Again, another strong argument for installing a second disk drive. You can get an awful lot of storage for darn little money and it will reduce frustration levels by 10,000 or so when such things happen to you.

You use the 2nd disk drive solely and only to back up your first disk drive. When I upgraded to an SATA drive, I left in my old drive for that purpose. It has saved my bacon, believe me.

Money well spent.