2007-01-15 11:32:01 · 5 answers · asked by sl2001 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Did you by any chance install Internet Explorer 7 on your PC ? If you do, that's the culprit. You can uninstal IE 7 or use system restore to fix it. If you don't have IE7, the sure way to fix it is to reinstall Window on top of the old installation. You won't loose your programs but you will loose all your personal settings.
2007-01-15 11:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by Ted B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First when booting up press ittermittently F8 and scroll down to last known good configurations, then reboot and update and run your spyware programs...spybot search and destroy is a good one and free..run your adware www.lavasoft.com has a good free one...and then virus protect.AVG is an excellent free for home users virus protection. If all that fails call the manufacturer or go to the library and search their site. They probably have an answer like Dell has ZZTOP which when ran will put it back in the condidtion that you got it out of the box. Windows also put out a Security Update that was wrong and if you did that boot to safe mode F5 and then uninstall the latest updates from MS. If all else fails email me and we'll think of something else.
I mean even if you have to reinstall you don't want to lose all your docs do you? I can back them up in DOS if need be.
2007-01-15 15:54:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get rid of your Windows "crap-patible" machine and switch to an alternative operating system. Short of that.
1. The old tried & true "Control-Alt-Delete" - reboot your system
2. Download (might be hard to do if your "windows explorer" is crashing - get one from a friend) one of several available free spyware/malware removal tools. Run them, clean out your system.
3. Go to the system restore feature - pick a date in the past that your machine was running fine & "restart" the machine with that configuration.
4. Boot from system install disk - reformat & reinstall Windows. This is a last resort idea, as you will lose all files on your computer that are not backed up to disk.
2007-01-15 11:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Sam Fisher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you have IE7 -- I have said it before many times -- Junk it (remove it using add/remove in the control panel) and install Firefox from www.mozilla.com --- IE7 has problems that need to be fixed -- you can try and remove IE7 and reload a different version (like a yahoo optimized or such) -- but this will probably not work as good as Firefox -- IE7 needs a patch/update now before they lose all their browzer users ---- I am not a LINUX crazy (I am pro Microsoft) but they blew this one big and FIREFOX (sorry to say) is much cleaner.
2007-01-15 11:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by Boodio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, Choose the one that you think is best. Don't be afraid of listing to yourself. Follow where you heart leads you.
2007-01-15 11:38:53 · answer #5 · answered by Sarbazeirani 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋