I bought a brand new computer 1 month ago.Everything has been fine until today.When I turn the computer on half of my desktop icons are gone.I heard awhile ago that a virus can do that so I ran my Norton and it shows no viruses.Also I go to the START button then to ALL PROGRAMS and some of the programs are still in there but when I try to access them nothing happens.Any ideas onto what is happening and how to fix it? I have a Dell.No one has had access to this computer except me in the last 3 days so I know no one deleted anything and the Recycle Bin is empty.
2007-02-28 07:04:07 · 3 answers · asked by darlene100568 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
ring dell, your pc is under warranty, they may talk you through a fix or send a serviceman
2007-02-28 07:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by defragmentedbrain 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say.... Run adaware (from Lavasoftusa.com) and spybot (from safer-networking.net, iirc).
Just for giggles, do a restore to a few days before this all started (start->all programs->accessories->system tools->system restore). That may solve the problem.
2007-02-28 15:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by Meg W 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you logged into your machine with administrative rights? Got to control panel and user profiles and check this. I may be logging you on automatically as guest
2007-02-28 15:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew Carson 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋