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  • Windows XP emergency! What do I do now?

    No, it's not the worm thing, first of all.

    My system was booting up normally, the desktop was all in order, although noticeably absent from my system tray was the Norton AV icon. Problem was nothing worked, including My Computer. Anything I'd tried to access, the hourglass icon would appear for a few seconds, then nothing. Although Pinball seemed to work fine.

    I called Dell Support, the technician walked me through repairing my Windows installation with the reinstallation CD, and now everything seems in order. But I'm wondering if there's anything else I need to do (reinstall drivers, etc.). Is there?

    Also I'm curious as to what the heck happened to cause this in the first place. Anybody have an idea?

    Thanks.
    "People sit in chairs!" - Bobby Baccalieri

  • #2
    yo

    your emergency is over

    nothing else to do

    kick back and relax

    although you might want to make backups of your important files
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Ted Striker
      yo

      your emergency is over

      nothing else to do

      kick back and relax

      although you might want to make backups of your important files
      Yes, I've been quite lazy about that these past few months. Needless to say I will be updating my backup CDs.
      "People sit in chairs!" - Bobby Baccalieri

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      • #4
        Get yourself a Lindows box... and you'll see how Lindows Rocks
        Up The Millers

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        • #5
          only get lindows if you have broadband. it sucks harder than any other linux distro if you don't have it.

          in any case, i suggest redhat, or gentoo, debian instead.
          B♭3

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          • #6
            If you get RedHat or Mandrake make sure you install the devel packages.
            American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
            I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
            Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
            XGalaga.

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            • #7
              Wait for Mandrake 9.2. Lindows sucks, Red Hat is good, Mandrake is a bit less stable but looks/acts better on the desktop. 9.1 is a bit dated though... was released March this year.
              "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
              "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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              • #8
                Debian stable release
                (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                • #9
                  Just wipe it and install Windows 2000. Better than XP as far as supported products and better than linux because it can play all your games.

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                  • #10
                    OTOH, how often do you see "Linux emergency, I need MAJOR help!" threads?
                    American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
                    I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
                    Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
                    XGalaga.

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                    • #11
                      Rarely, because the few people who do use Linux will, in emergencies, either ask "How do I go back to Windows?" or sort their troubles out themselves (using Google and more technically inclined forums than Apolyton for help)...
                      This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHand

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                      • #12
                        That is one of the reasons why I despise windows and its users, because it cripples people and teaches them that they cannot figure things out on their own, they have to ask someone who already knows.
                        American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
                        I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
                        Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
                        XGalaga.

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                        • #13
                          On linux, stuff rarely if ever goes wrong that a) wasn't the users fault or b) cant be fixed relatively easily, or c) hasn't occured before so fixes and procedures are known (not that c is all that common either).

                          When I was running linux, quite literally nothing messed up, only things that went wrong were because of me. I'm using windows XP right now because of that... slackware has so much potential for fiddleing that I dont get any work done.

                          When windows messes up, which even now (and I've updated system in light of worm), theres less way of knowing whats going on, and any immediate cures feel half assed because I dont have ultimate control (source code access).
                          "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
                          "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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                          • #14
                            New problem:

                            Now everytime I run ScanDisk, I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the disk check."
                            "People sit in chairs!" - Bobby Baccalieri

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                            • #15
                              Get a third party disk checker and run a surface scan. Now.
                              No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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