I Had A Power Outage For Three Days, When It Was Restored Today I Turned On The Computer And It Was Fine I Turned Off The Computer And When I Turned It Back On I Lost My Start Menu And All My Icons Windows Still Loads But I Need Help Please! Thanx Lastcall2
Icons And Start Menu Gone
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phreakwars
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I'm a little confused here, but I might have your answer in this confusion...
OK first of all, is the computer that is causing the problems the one you are on now, or a different machine. I guess what I'm trying to say, is I am wondering if the machine is just not booting correctly and is hanging, or if a setting was changed somehow.
When you get a power outage, usually when you reboot, the OS needs to reorganize itself a bit, they boot will delay for quite a while as it checks files and such.. Some people can mistaken this for the computer actually being booted fully, but missing icons. They grow impatient, and REBOOT AGAIN with the same result... DON'T DO THAT !!
You could turn this inconvienient situation into a worse one.
The thing about an NTFS system over older OS like Windows 98/85/ME which runs on a FAT32 system, is the OS checks itself for security reasons.
I've seen full boots take as long as 20 minutes on a slower machine with slower hardware.
The best way to tell what is KINDA going on, is to check the hard drive activity light, or listen for the hard drive spinning... ALOT of activity in the hard drive indicates files are being sorted out, this CAN take quite a while..
If you disturb this process by rebooting, you could do a couple things to it... make it restart over, or make it corrupt your registry, simply because you rebooted as it was writing data to the drive....
At this point in time, I recommend you tap the f8 key before it shows the WINDOWS XP LOGO SCREEN and this will take you to a startup menu to go into safe mode or a couple other modes.
Try using the mode that says "LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION" first..
Give it about 5 minutes or so to do its thing, if not, reboot and try SAFE MODE.... once in safe mode, do a system restore.
Hopefully this should bring all back to where it was.
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OK first of all, is the computer that is causing the problems the one you are on now, or a different machine. I guess what I'm trying to say, is I am wondering if the machine is just not booting correctly and is hanging, or if a setting was changed somehow.
When you get a power outage, usually when you reboot, the OS needs to reorganize itself a bit, they boot will delay for quite a while as it checks files and such.. Some people can mistaken this for the computer actually being booted fully, but missing icons. They grow impatient, and REBOOT AGAIN with the same result... DON'T DO THAT !!
You could turn this inconvienient situation into a worse one.
The thing about an NTFS system over older OS like Windows 98/85/ME which runs on a FAT32 system, is the OS checks itself for security reasons.
I've seen full boots take as long as 20 minutes on a slower machine with slower hardware.
The best way to tell what is KINDA going on, is to check the hard drive activity light, or listen for the hard drive spinning... ALOT of activity in the hard drive indicates files are being sorted out, this CAN take quite a while..
If you disturb this process by rebooting, you could do a couple things to it... make it restart over, or make it corrupt your registry, simply because you rebooted as it was writing data to the drive....
At this point in time, I recommend you tap the f8 key before it shows the WINDOWS XP LOGO SCREEN and this will take you to a startup menu to go into safe mode or a couple other modes.
Try using the mode that says "LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION" first..
Give it about 5 minutes or so to do its thing, if not, reboot and try SAFE MODE.... once in safe mode, do a system restore.
Hopefully this should bring all back to where it was.
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