Desktop problems after WinXP Reinstallation

[rdcobb1]

Thanks to my wonderful Dell technician, in diagnosing a bad memory card,
he managed to corrupt my Win XP so badly that after 4 hours on the phone
the only thing he could offer was to backup everything that I could on
my hard drive, reinstall WIN XP and start over. He had erased my start
icon and I could not get to any programs unless I entered through the
directory. I called back and got another technician who simply stated
that all I had to do was to reinstall my original WINXP over the old
one and everything would be all right. It worked up to a point. I now
have at least two BIG problems that I cannot figure out what to do
about. 1) After I download or copy any file to my desktop, when I move
or copy it somewhere else, it is corrupted and it will not work and it
will not even let me access or even delete that file . When I go to
access the file, I get a message that says the file is in use or is
copy protected. I have done this on numerous files and not one has
worked after it is moved, copied, etc. from the desktop 2) No matter
what I do no screen saver will work! I have no idea what the problem
is because everything else pretty much works. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.




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"rdcobb1" <rdcobb1.19e910e@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks to my wonderful Dell technician, in diagnosing a bad memory card,
> he managed to corrupt my Win XP so badly that after 4 hours on the phone
> the only thing he could offer was to backup everything that I could on
> my hard drive, reinstall WIN XP and start over. He had erased my start
> icon and I could not get to any programs unless I entered through the
> directory. I called back and got another technician who simply stated
> that all I had to do was to reinstall my original WINXP over the old
> one and everything would be all right. It worked up to a point. I now
> have at least two BIG problems that I cannot figure out what to do
> about. 1) After I download or copy any file to my desktop, when I move
> or copy it somewhere else, it is corrupted and it will not work and it
> will not even let me access or even delete that file . When I go to
> access the file, I get a message that says the file is in use or is
> copy protected. I have done this on numerous files and not one has
> worked after it is moved, copied, etc. from the desktop 2) No matter
> what I do no screen saver will work! I have no idea what the problem
> is because everything else pretty much works. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
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> rdcobb1