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I was using my friend's laptop (Windows XP Home edition) to rip CDs for her
new MP3 player. After running fine for a little while, the computer suddenly
quit recognizing the CD drive. After trying a CD I knew worked, I rebooted.
This didn't fix the problem, and starting up is now EXTREMELY slow. When I
finally reach the Welcome screen and log in, the desktop shows up, but no
icons/start menu/taskbar. Opening task manager shows that Windows Explorer is
running, opening "new task" and explorer.exe has no effect. Shutting down is
also slow to the point that it doesn't happen, eventually we just hit the
power button. I'm pretty sure the problem is that we ran out of memory
space; I need to know how to erase the files or run System Restore without
being able to access anything but Task Manager. I can't create an MS-DOS
start up disk because she doesn't have a floppy drive on the laptop.
new MP3 player. After running fine for a little while, the computer suddenly
quit recognizing the CD drive. After trying a CD I knew worked, I rebooted.
This didn't fix the problem, and starting up is now EXTREMELY slow. When I
finally reach the Welcome screen and log in, the desktop shows up, but no
icons/start menu/taskbar. Opening task manager shows that Windows Explorer is
running, opening "new task" and explorer.exe has no effect. Shutting down is
also slow to the point that it doesn't happen, eventually we just hit the
power button. I'm pretty sure the problem is that we ran out of memory
space; I need to know how to erase the files or run System Restore without
being able to access anything but Task Manager. I can't create an MS-DOS
start up disk because she doesn't have a floppy drive on the laptop.