The computer shop installed Windows without telling you or offering to
salvage/save your data? Don't bring you computer back to that shop!
They're not worth 2 cents in my books, I'm 99.99% sure that ALL your
data could have been very easily recovered!
John
Lorna Pye wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your help. Unfortunately nothing work so I took the whole thing
> to the shop where I bought the memory from and got them to look at it. They
> believe the memory I bought was faulty and it had corrupted Windows! So I now
> have a working PC but with no data, files or programmes on it! Great! Well,
> here we go, starting from scratch!
> Thanks anyway
> Lorna
>
> "User Friendly" wrote:
>
>
>>Lorna Pye wrote:
>>
>>>HELP! I inserted some more memory into my PC today and when I switched it
>>>back on everything is written in Wingdings! The start menu, the icons,
>>>everything!!! I managed to change the list in start up back to System (this
>>>was the only font available) but everything else is still in Wingdings. I
>>>removed the memory and tried again but it made no difference!
>>>I'm getting very desperate!
>>
>>Ah...a fantastic mystery....
>>If you have "system" fonts, is this sufficient to get into
>>control panel | fonts and reinstall your fonts? Look for the
>>fonts in windows | fonts. Select them all and reinstall. It
>>would seem that the new memory install scrambled the
>>registry. Hard to image how your fonts were actually deleted.
>>Your other choices, if you can use them, are to backup your
>>data and use the Win Install CD to recover your system,
>>which might require a whole wipe of the HDD including
>>applications. A lucky alternative is to access System
>>Restore, but if wingdings is the available font...good luck.
>>Upon bootup,hold down F8 and select "return to last known
>>good setting," or boot into safe mode and get into system
>>restore (get into HELP and search "system restore" (sorry I
>>am on win98 machine right now or I'd give you the direct
>>connect).
>>You might create a "translation table" for wingdings (type
>>"a" and note the symbol, type "b" and note the symbol,
>>etc.), thus allowing you to get into windows explorer and
>>what ever else to make tweaks.
>>Report back, please.
>>
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