S
Septima
I uninstalled a program yesterday. Firefox browser as it was having problems
and decided to do a complete unistall of it from the control panel
add/remove programs. When I rebooted my icons were all distorted and then
all of a sudden half my programs on my F drive were gone. I tried doing a
system restore but only had one to roll it back to. It did not fix the
problem.
I was shocked to find most of my programs were either completely gone or
missing files. My email program Courier was gone completely. My Opera
browser was gone, half my programs were gone or missing files.
I have XP professional, was using Sygate firewall on the computer, Norton
Antivirus, and used regular checks with Spybot and Adaware for other
problems. Always kept temp files clean and ran regular checks on viruses and
other issues.
I am not sure what happened but I have reinstalled many of the programs and
the are working but I have had to reinstall most of the programs. My problem
now is IE is not showing in the add/remove programs at all but when I open
it I cant get to the update page, I cant install even a downloaded version
of IE to fix it. I get a message from the ie6setup.exe file
A Previous installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete the installation before running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.
I have rebooted and tried closing some things down in the taskmanager but
not sure what to shut down to fix this. The IE folder will not let me delete
it manually so that wont fix it to install a clean install.
I am wondering if whatever this mess is should just do a clean install or if
there is a way to fix this mess. I cant get to windows update, many pages
wont load in IE and it has on the about blank info on which version or
anything else.
Any suggestions on what I have going on? I had to reistall office completely
it was gone .. For some strange reason my OE with still in tact but many of
my programs and the folders were completely empty. Never have seen anything
like this. Had to unistall my virus program completely and it will not let
me reistall it.
I got a bug somewhere or virus but cant seem to find it doing scans with the
tools above. I download free version of a program for viruses and scanned
still nothing .. Help!!!
and decided to do a complete unistall of it from the control panel
add/remove programs. When I rebooted my icons were all distorted and then
all of a sudden half my programs on my F drive were gone. I tried doing a
system restore but only had one to roll it back to. It did not fix the
problem.
I was shocked to find most of my programs were either completely gone or
missing files. My email program Courier was gone completely. My Opera
browser was gone, half my programs were gone or missing files.
I have XP professional, was using Sygate firewall on the computer, Norton
Antivirus, and used regular checks with Spybot and Adaware for other
problems. Always kept temp files clean and ran regular checks on viruses and
other issues.
I am not sure what happened but I have reinstalled many of the programs and
the are working but I have had to reinstall most of the programs. My problem
now is IE is not showing in the add/remove programs at all but when I open
it I cant get to the update page, I cant install even a downloaded version
of IE to fix it. I get a message from the ie6setup.exe file
A Previous installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You need to
restart your computer to complete the installation before running Internet
Explorer Setup. Setup will now close.
I have rebooted and tried closing some things down in the taskmanager but
not sure what to shut down to fix this. The IE folder will not let me delete
it manually so that wont fix it to install a clean install.
I am wondering if whatever this mess is should just do a clean install or if
there is a way to fix this mess. I cant get to windows update, many pages
wont load in IE and it has on the about blank info on which version or
anything else.
Any suggestions on what I have going on? I had to reistall office completely
it was gone .. For some strange reason my OE with still in tact but many of
my programs and the folders were completely empty. Never have seen anything
like this. Had to unistall my virus program completely and it will not let
me reistall it.
I got a bug somewhere or virus but cant seem to find it doing scans with the
tools above. I download free version of a program for viruses and scanned
still nothing .. Help!!!