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Phasar
I wasn't doing anything, I swear.
I use Powerdesk 5 as a replacement for Windows Explorer.
I was going through a bunch of zip files in one of my subdirectories. Left click, right
click, use Winzip to open. No problems.
All of a sudden it would close Powerdesk every time I tried to right click and give me a
message saying an automatic error log was being created.
I tried Windows Explorer with the same results.
Both programs will allow me to move files, and I can open them if I use Winzip or Winrar
directly, but collapse if I right click or try to delete by marking the file (left click)
and hitting delete.
I can also run from the start menu command and delete from the command prompt.
I reinstalled Powerdesk 5 and still get the same errors.
I decided to do some disk cleanup with System Mechanic 4 in case there was a problem
somewhere.
I checked for invalid links, deleted the invalid links. Still no problem.
I checked for garbage file, .bak, .tmp, etc. Then deleted them.
I did a registry scan and deleted all the invalid references in the registry. Yes, I
checked the list before the delete and there wasn't anything even remotely useful. Most
were old programs that I have uninstalled in the past. Yes I created a backup.
Then I did a reboot. That's when the real problems started.
At startup you get the graphical Windows 2000 Pro sign that at the bottom says loading
windows, or something like that, and a few other things.
Then it goes to the desktop.
Now any words that are generated by Windows and are not part of a graphic are giberish.
Unrecognized characters. It is like it is displaying in a different language but I don't
have the language pack installed.
The Desktop now has big icons and Writing that seems to be in bold.
Any program I launch with writing (ie text bar menu) is also big and bold. Pretty much
everything past that is in giberish.
I opened System Mechanic and went back to the registry cleaner... giberish.
I opened System mechanic on my laptop and used it as a map to find out the buttons to push
and did a restore of the backed up registry. Then I did a restart. Still giberish.
I restored the backup again, in case I had made an error. Did a restart, still giberish.
Right now it's running checkdisk, but I don't think that's going to solve anything..
HELP!!!!! I have a lot of files on there and no backup. I could do a backup and burn it
onto a cd, but all the screens are giberish so I can't read what to do.
Any ideas????????
I use Powerdesk 5 as a replacement for Windows Explorer.
I was going through a bunch of zip files in one of my subdirectories. Left click, right
click, use Winzip to open. No problems.
All of a sudden it would close Powerdesk every time I tried to right click and give me a
message saying an automatic error log was being created.
I tried Windows Explorer with the same results.
Both programs will allow me to move files, and I can open them if I use Winzip or Winrar
directly, but collapse if I right click or try to delete by marking the file (left click)
and hitting delete.
I can also run from the start menu command and delete from the command prompt.
I reinstalled Powerdesk 5 and still get the same errors.
I decided to do some disk cleanup with System Mechanic 4 in case there was a problem
somewhere.
I checked for invalid links, deleted the invalid links. Still no problem.
I checked for garbage file, .bak, .tmp, etc. Then deleted them.
I did a registry scan and deleted all the invalid references in the registry. Yes, I
checked the list before the delete and there wasn't anything even remotely useful. Most
were old programs that I have uninstalled in the past. Yes I created a backup.
Then I did a reboot. That's when the real problems started.
At startup you get the graphical Windows 2000 Pro sign that at the bottom says loading
windows, or something like that, and a few other things.
Then it goes to the desktop.
Now any words that are generated by Windows and are not part of a graphic are giberish.
Unrecognized characters. It is like it is displaying in a different language but I don't
have the language pack installed.
The Desktop now has big icons and Writing that seems to be in bold.
Any program I launch with writing (ie text bar menu) is also big and bold. Pretty much
everything past that is in giberish.
I opened System Mechanic and went back to the registry cleaner... giberish.
I opened System mechanic on my laptop and used it as a map to find out the buttons to push
and did a restore of the backed up registry. Then I did a restart. Still giberish.
I restored the backup again, in case I had made an error. Did a restart, still giberish.
Right now it's running checkdisk, but I don't think that's going to solve anything..
HELP!!!!! I have a lot of files on there and no backup. I could do a backup and burn it
onto a cd, but all the screens are giberish so I can't read what to do.
Any ideas????????