Matonly1T

occasionally my computer freezes or sometimes road runner stops running so ill do the restart thingy. The problem I have is after I type my password in I can see my desktop background but nothing loads, no icons, and no error messages appears. This forces me too system restore which fixes the problem for awhile and makes me reinstall everything. Anyone else have this problem?

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Miiz

hrmm I had this problem before cause I had this virus *http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/352407* <- that one.

but anywho I had to reformat my computer cause I had no restore points and nothing on my screen but my desktop o.o

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<DaNTe>

Lol that happened to me when i reinstalled windows. It worked the first time but when i turned it off and turned it back on, it loaded my desktop wallpaper but nothing loaded. So i used ctrl alt del and just opened internet explorer from there. After a while it got back to its normal self. I doubt its a virus, although u may need to do a scan first.

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Matonly1T

yeah I bought the norton antivirus for a year thingy. I know that I didnt have any viruses because I did a scan right before the problem occured again.

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shadowclone

Have you tried starting your comp in safe mode?

Maybe you have way too many startup procesess. so you might wanna disable some.

run>msconfig>click the startup tab. =P

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Matonly1T

I wouldnt know what to disable lol >.O

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sujee

i think he means the roadrunner program, well if it runs when explorer, the default windows shell, opens...

this is a graphical issue more than anything...
you have probably deleted an important file... or your registry is corrupt?

try getting a registry fixer

see if that works

Matonly1T

alrite I will give it a shot, but curiously in a system restore doesnt it restore lost or deleted files?

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shadowclone

if your gonna mess around with the registry settings please be careful becuase some things are irrevesible if you mess up. anywho good luck with fixing your comp =p

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OffTheChain

lol to hell with a registry fixer, that got my computer crashd in the first place O.o

My pc would load and say "windows xp" and not go onto the log in screen. So had to get a new hard drive XD

shadowclone

^^^that was what i was talking about. lol

anywho, if nuttin works you might wanna reformat your hd and if that doesnt work get a new hd.

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Matonly1T

for some strange reason after I bought my computer at Circuit City it didnt come with the cd that lets you reformat TT___TT. So I guess once in awhile I'll have to system restore. Are there any risks or anything that a system restore can do to a computer?

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sujee

lol wtf... i think getting a registry fixer is better than reformatting.. its the option you should do before it is found impossible and the final choice you should have is reformatting...

yes registry fixers do kind of act funky but then again they have the option of backing up... so what i say is backup and then scan and fix... if something goes wrong... run from the backup... hope that helps

shadowclone

yeh, thats why i said if nuttin works, then reformat. o_0

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Yondaime_YF

ye i had the same kind of problem cuz of cousins watching porn and gettin my computer infected i had to reformat then it was fine
i used two different antivirus programmes they couldn't get it fixed then i tried spyware removal too it din work either
i would suggest reformat too

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