[porkmarras]

My pc seems to have gone mad.Everytime i switch it on it logs on to windows xp(home edition) but nothing else happens.It doesn't even show the icons on screen,just the background.

[Phlegmscope]

Have you switched off the icons by accident?

[porkmarras]

How can that be?

[porkmarras]

It cant be a case of the blue screen of death because i've seen what it does before.

[porkmarras]

And hopefully two of my flatmates said that they'll have a look later this afternoon.

[Phlegmscope]

Obviously it's not preventing you from typing here.

[porkmarras]

Internt cafes?

[porkmarras]

So,anyway,what do you think i might have done?

[jon boy]

you may have a virus or spy ware or it may just be some other annoying computer thing that pisses everyone off. you could try and re install windows but you will have lost everything you saved unfortunatly.

[Phlegmscope]

Originally Posted by jon boy

you could try and re install windows but you will have lost everything you saved unfortunatly.

Isn't there a repairing install option, which doesn't format your hard-drive? I don't think I've had to reinstall my windows xp yet.

[porkmarras]

Damn it,i have some recent music saved on it that didn't back up.Most of the rest is all backed up.

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by Phlegmscope

Isn't there a repairing install option, which doesn't format your hard-drive? I don't think I've had to reinstalled my windows xp yet.

So how do you do it?My flatmate just said before he went that it wasnt hardware but add/spyware probably.

[Hip Priest]

I believe it's possible to boot the computer up in safe mode (by hitting F8 when you see the first loading screen) and remove viruses etc somewhat better from there. So I'm told.

edit: this page may be helpful: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1643&page=2

[porkmarras]

I tried that but it wont let me.Thanks for the information anyway.

[jon boy]

do you have virus/spyware pretection?


does anyone know of any good ones? i have avast and a few others are there any better? and free?

[RdTv]

The best I used was Avast, I dont use any now because I run a Apple machine, but my parents constantly call me because their pc has died or what not.

[Inhuman]

Originally Posted by porkmarras

I tried that but it wont let me.Thanks for the information anyway.

If it just loads the background and nothing else, then there's something preventing explorer.exe from opening. You can still back information up though. Try reinstalling XP, you won't lose your data. If it's a virus it may persist.

If you have floppy disks USB drive, or external hard drive you can transfer your music using dos, (To boot in dos it's one of the "F" keys and press it at startup, mine is F9). The script is:

COPY [d:][path]filename+[d:][path]filename2[...] [d:][path][newfilename]

Use CD to move through your folders

ex: cd C:\Program Files\Warcraft\

And use DIR to see all the files in a folder.

[Alex's Trip]

The best antivirus is Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

You can't do anything? Can you right click? Can you hit ctrl+alt+delete and get the task manager?

It is hard to help without knowing the exact problem.

[alyasa]

I thought everyone here is a computer geek...

[porkmarras]

I can't right click and the keyboard doesnt really respond at all but if i put a data cd on it accepts it.I thought of reinstalling windows xp.It says that it takes about 90 mins is that right?