That's often bad news. I would start by backing up whatever might not yet have been (libraries etc.). You can boot in DOS to do that. Then do a Windows repair as Spehro or someone else had suggested. This might not fix it but if it does you'd be through the whole process in a jiffy. Also, that should preserve your applications on there and their settings.
If repair doesn't fix it you can still do the whole delete-everything and install from scratch thing.
Similar here. When at work I am always using two machines at the same time. One for documentation, one for the electronic stuff. When one crashes I can continue to do both on the other until it is back up.
Then all you really need besides the email files should be the user profiles and network settings.
Jim, another approach is to use a couple spare drives. Format and install the operating system on one spare drive, then use it to boot the system with all three drives. Clone the original drive to the second spare drive. Then you can try to replace damaged OS files on the second spare without risking the original drive. Its worked for me to recover data from badly infested computers that wouldn't boot. Even if the boot drive ended up infected, it was a spare and could be reformatted when I finished cleaning everything up.
I am in the process of salvaging files from a computer that accumulated 1880 worms and thousands of items of spyware before it finally wouldn't boot. The owner didn't believe they needed to worry about spyware and virii protection. They were too lazy to download decent free software, and now they have lost about half their files. They were hit hard by the Netsky worms, of several types. That over wrote almost every HTML file, and created hundreds of hidden blank folders that would open when you looked at the directory they were hiding in. It took seven passes before they were gone, then I had to turn off the system restore feature to remove the last 467 copies that were protected by the OS from being deleted. Why are people so stupid?
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That is why I am trying to set up some real computer classes. The community college has all kinds of courses on how to use different programs, but not one on "Safe online computing". Since they are not interested in providing this class I am going to do it at my church. I also want to start an open computer club. There are dozens of computer clubs around here but they are all inside gated communities and only open to their residents. We need one that is open to everyone. A couple dollars a head per meeting to pay the church for the lighting and air conditioning should cover most of the overhead, and there is a small storeroom where we can lock things up between meetings. The church is supposed to be installing a cable modem for their use during the day, and I think they will let us use it in the evening, as long as someone from the church is there to supervise the club. Of course, the ideal space for the club is upstairs, so we can't use it. because of their insurance. The stairs are too steep to meet toady's building codes, so the area is used for storage.
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It's good form to get your post right when you are giving a negative critique of someone else's.
You seem to be using "right on cue" as if it means "on target." It doesn't.
Delightful to see you get it completely wrong.
Queue is certainly different than cue (although I don't know why you mention it) but cue in "right on cue" is not the same as cue relating to billiards.
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Not directly on the subject, but includes this: "*right on cue*, theatrical slang for saying the right lines at the right time."
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So "right on cue" means at the appropriate or expected time. It does not mean "on target" or "appropriate" and it does not relate, even etymologically, to billiards.
Sometimes I think you should have to pass a test before being allowed a PC. I've 'had' to fix other ppls PCs where the problem is caused by ineptitude or simply failing to pay attention to basics.
Sorry, but you have jumped your queue in life. You have no place here.
That's a very interesting remark. You should consider heeding it.
You seem to not know a damned thing about it.
"On cue" is a phrase used in acting.
"On cue" is ALSO a phrase used in billiards.
One means on time, and the other means on target, or at one's best. You need to re-examine what you seem to think are the facts.
If you are delighted, it is delight in your lack of grasp of reality.
I can tell. You do not appear to know much at all. You began your reply by top posting. I am surprised you didn't make your entire post that way.
Yes, it is. As in: Cue ball. Cue stick. Cue up, and... you guessed it: On cue.
The other reference is as in: Cue the actors to enter stage right. Or: Cue the idiot Usenet posters to reply about something which they have zero knowledge of..
Just proves you are simple minded. "Right on cue" is a billiard phrase, and "Right on cue" is also an acting phrase.
They merely prove that even folks that post web pages can have errors of omission.
That is one meaning.
You are mistaken. Were you ever even involved in the realm of billiards, you would know this.
Win98SE has a util called sfc.exe which is the system file checker and compares the active file with data it keeps in a database. It also knows which cab file to get a copy from. MSConfig.exe allows one to specify startup conditions. Have these 'essentials' been thrown out of W2K ?
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Note that virus scanners can only detect and remove viri already known, and viri that use particular system weaknesses that have been identified and are susceptible to checking. New viri, etc. are often immune, and even invisible, to all current antivirus scanners. You're quite smart to back up your stuff often.
I just got a nice 4-yr-old hp from a friend who had done some unwise surfing and picked up something his up-to-date version of Norton AV didn't catch. It trashed his XP so completely that the computer wouldn't even boot. I loaded QNX onto it and it's perfectly happy. (I'll eventually put SUSE and XP Pro on it when I've finished getting reacquainted with QNX).
I realize that certain idiots among web builders force IE weaknesses on their users. So far, none have been so necessary to my wife's needs (she's a teacher) that she couldn't do everything she needs with Netscape. I still keep IE accessible on her machine so I can update her XP Pro when necessary.
You should consider some of these measures when you get your machine back. (Snide comment about your aversion to linux being your misfortune duly deleted :-).
I had a thought. Any way to locate registry entries that occurred after a certain date and time?
This whole thing is really bizarre. I can run almost everything via Task Manager, except Windows Explorer, and a program called WinTasks, and no DeskTop or Tray.
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I have and it is very similar to MSConfig. Anyway, anything which purports to 'adjust' system settings is probably reading/writing values to the registry - no need for me to use Regedit 8¬).
'sfc' is particularly good since it examines all the system critical files and if it finds a broken or changed or updated one it can go get a fresh copy from the source or update its DB as directed by the user. I'm surprised no one has suggested using before.
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Again, as I stated before, you could back up your registry, then re-install windows, then re-integrate the old registry to get your installed apps back.
msconfig is not in w2k, but it can be imported harmlessly. It will examine the start-up environment, after showing error messages when attempting to open other, non-existent, w98 files. The errors close when manually 'ignored'.
Perhaps using the repair option, from a floppy boot, might serve.
The 'search results' icon on the desktop - isn't this an option in the MS AntiSpyware Beta? I can't quite remember the bugs that induced me to uninstall this program, almost immediately. Perhaps you've been exploring other software that you forgot to mention.
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I think you are deluded. Give me a reference other than you and your pool shooting buddies (dictionary or web with some credibility) for the billiard reference to your meaning of "right on cue".
The language is constantly evolving, particularly in slang, but it takes a while before a phrase or definition is accepted as part of the documented lexicon.
For the majority of the english speaking world, I'm right. If you can give me a decent reference (I looked) I'll accept that you are not completely wrong. Otherwise you scratched.
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