I don't pretend to know what the mess is that you have been "helped" into,
but I do have one suggestion: Buy Acronis True Image and make regular image
FILES of your C: Drive AND separate file/folder copies/images of your My
Documents folder (because restoring an image of C will lose any documents
you have done since the image was made).
For the same reason, I also recommend Express Assist 7, which will backup
your Outlook Express email files (as well as certain Windows files and
Explorer files, if you wish) so that you can restore the current ones after
you restore a previously made image. I run EA7 after downloading my email.
I run 2ndCopy daily to maintain a duplicate of My Documents on a separate
hard drive - Acronis will make file/folder backups that you can copy off to
DVD, if you wish.
I make a new Acronis image after I do something significant, such as
changing Windows settings or installing a program. Before you make an image
file, clean up a bit & empty the Recycle Bin - this reduces the size of the
image file.
Good Luck,
AnnaSummers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Weaver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] HELP!!!
The first thing I would try is 'system restore', you will find it at
Start/All programs/System tools/System restore.
If this recovers your system, I would defragment the hard drive, also found
in System tools.
Whilst most 'fix' programs cause more trouble than they are worth, I have
found that TuneUp Utilities works very well at tuning up and cleaning up the
registry, you can get a free trial at http://www.tune-up.com/
Hope this helps
Bob Weaver
-----Original Message-----
From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lewis c Emerson
Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 11:38 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCSOFT] HELP!!!
Last evening while trying to upload to Walgreens a few photos from my
camera memory card I ran into a severe problem. After getting one error
after another requiring me to "sign in" all over again, I called their
toll-free help line and with the assistance of a young lady I'm afraid
that I have dug myself into a deep hole. The computer is a one-year old
laptop with an AMD Sempron processor, 512 MB memory, and running Windows
XP Pro. The browser is IE, version 6.
Up until last night I've had no problems of any kind. The kind lady
first had me go to IE tools, then Internet Options and delete the
cookies. When this didn't fix the problem she then had me delete the
Temporary Internet Files. This didn't help either. Then she directed me
to the website www.lavasoft.com and had me download and run all manner of
stuff. The first was a Registry Cleaner (I don't understand the
registry, so just took her advice) "It" found 72 "objects and asked if I
wanted "fix" it. She advised "Yes", but it "fixed" only 20 of the 72 and
recommended upgrading to another version to fix the remaining 52 objects.
She said "not now", so we proceeded to download another EIGHT things - I
don't know them all, but there are associated with "Googelupdates" and
included Mozilla Foxfire, Google Earth, Norton Anti Virus, Lavasoft SE
Personal Edition, plus several more. I have a high speed broadband
connection so this didn't take a lot of time, but the resulting scanning
did. This still didn't fix the problem, so she had me use the Foxfire
browser to upload the photos and that worked OK. By the way, Norton A-V
would not install as it was recognized that the computer already had
McAfee A-V installed.
Now, Internet Explorer will not work. When I try to run it I get the
message "In trying to load Internet Explorer has encountered a problem
with an add-on and needs to close." and then "The following add-on was
running when the problem occurred". (Googletoolbar1.dll) Then an error
message is sent to Microsoft (What good will this do?). This is followed
by another error message "IE has encountered a problem and needs to
close. We are sorry for the inconvenience and you may lose data, etc.
etc."
Now, I don't understand Add-ons, Registry, and much, much more so I'm at
a loss as to where to turn. I'd like to get my IE back again. In less
that 24 hours I've gone from having a well-working computer to one that's
really sick. Can the remaining 52 "objects" in the Registry the problem?
Can I go back to Lavasoft and "fix' another 20? Then another 20, etc?
I'd sure appreciate any and all help, but be gentle as possible as I'm
not far beyond the novice stage.
Lewis Emerson
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