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Recently I went to a LAN party at my high school, the first boot went great
but later when running Doom 3 at too high of a video quality (low) my
computer froze up completely. There was nothing I could do to un-freeze my
computer and after sitting there for about 10 minutes praying for a
miraculous recovery, or for my ctrl+alt+delete to work, I decided to just
hold down the power button and force it to shut down. Though turning off
ones computer in this way is rarley harmful to the hardware or OS, it can
reek havic on some programs if they're running. Now, only MSN messenger,
Norton Anti-Virus (but not Norton Internet Security 2004) and the icon for my
internet conection will star up on my task bar (where the clock is) when
before I also had an icon for ATI, my mouse, my sound, my printer, and NIS.
I tweeked msconfig, I went into all those programs and set them to start up
at system start up, and I made sure that the option to dissplay an icon on
the task bar was enabled, and system restore didn't help anything. This has
happend to me in the past and I finaly ended up formating my computer because
it needed to be done anyways. Is there anything I can do to bring back my
seemingly magically vanishing icons? Thanks for any help.
but later when running Doom 3 at too high of a video quality (low) my
computer froze up completely. There was nothing I could do to un-freeze my
computer and after sitting there for about 10 minutes praying for a
miraculous recovery, or for my ctrl+alt+delete to work, I decided to just
hold down the power button and force it to shut down. Though turning off
ones computer in this way is rarley harmful to the hardware or OS, it can
reek havic on some programs if they're running. Now, only MSN messenger,
Norton Anti-Virus (but not Norton Internet Security 2004) and the icon for my
internet conection will star up on my task bar (where the clock is) when
before I also had an icon for ATI, my mouse, my sound, my printer, and NIS.
I tweeked msconfig, I went into all those programs and set them to start up
at system start up, and I made sure that the option to dissplay an icon on
the task bar was enabled, and system restore didn't help anything. This has
happend to me in the past and I finaly ended up formating my computer because
it needed to be done anyways. Is there anything I can do to bring back my
seemingly magically vanishing icons? Thanks for any help.