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drbink
It all started with NORTON... system sluggish, videos and music choppy, you
know, the same ol story when it comes to space wasting memory hog programs. I
decided to kill Norton and uninstall it. I used RegCure to clean up the mess
the Norton Uninstaller uses, all is well. Reboot was fine. I decided to go
into the Windows Firewall and enable it, only problem is, I couldn't, it gave
me an internal error and said I didn't have access, (my user account is set
for admin rights as I am the only user) Next step was to reload the operating
system with the repair procedure, repair procedure appeared to work fine (not
having used it before I was not sure of what it was supposed to do and what
indications should be) Rebooted windows and the same problem existed. Reran
the repair feature, now the setup hangs with 29 minutes to go after it starts
the configuration phase of set up.
When booting Windows normally, all I get is the Windows XP logo in the place
of the users name icons... that's it, the moves moves freely, but no
interation with the GUI.
Rebooting into various modes of Safe Mode results in frozen screens.
I know the easiest thing is to reformat and start over, you know the story
here as well, no recent backup, important files on computer, blah blah blah.
What I would like to ask the community is this; is there a way that I can get
to the command line of the C\: that bypasses the safe mode options of booting?
How can I reset the system attributes for the entire system from the command
prompt?
Doing this will enable me to copy a couple of important directories to
either a flash drive or another hard drive attached to the system. After
that, I'll nuke it and kick it to the curb if need be and reload everything
fresh, but only after I can get into the drive externally of windows to copy
the data....
your assistance or suggestions is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
know, the same ol story when it comes to space wasting memory hog programs. I
decided to kill Norton and uninstall it. I used RegCure to clean up the mess
the Norton Uninstaller uses, all is well. Reboot was fine. I decided to go
into the Windows Firewall and enable it, only problem is, I couldn't, it gave
me an internal error and said I didn't have access, (my user account is set
for admin rights as I am the only user) Next step was to reload the operating
system with the repair procedure, repair procedure appeared to work fine (not
having used it before I was not sure of what it was supposed to do and what
indications should be) Rebooted windows and the same problem existed. Reran
the repair feature, now the setup hangs with 29 minutes to go after it starts
the configuration phase of set up.
When booting Windows normally, all I get is the Windows XP logo in the place
of the users name icons... that's it, the moves moves freely, but no
interation with the GUI.
Rebooting into various modes of Safe Mode results in frozen screens.
I know the easiest thing is to reformat and start over, you know the story
here as well, no recent backup, important files on computer, blah blah blah.
What I would like to ask the community is this; is there a way that I can get
to the command line of the C\: that bypasses the safe mode options of booting?
How can I reset the system attributes for the entire system from the command
prompt?
Doing this will enable me to copy a couple of important directories to
either a flash drive or another hard drive attached to the system. After
that, I'll nuke it and kick it to the curb if need be and reload everything
fresh, but only after I can get into the drive externally of windows to copy
the data....
your assistance or suggestions is greatly appreciated! Thank you!