I have a 2 year old Sony Vaio with Windows XP. Everything was fine until two days ago. I downloaded a photo off of a PhotoShop site. It sat on my desktop not as a folder but as a 1 and a half inch by two inch photo.
As I was finishing my work, I thought I'd click the photo off by selecting the "x" in the minimize maximize off menu that formed the top border of the photo.
Unfortunately I hit something else and the photo became my wallpaper.
I forget what I did to get my original wallpaper back, but at that point, when I saw my original wallpaper back, I thought everything was fine.
I then decided to go to the start menu and use the search function.
While searching for a file, the ominous dialogue box came up saying that there was an error with the Windows Explorer end of things and did I want to report it to MicroSoft?
I did not do so then, but later on, again when trying to use "Search" I got the same message. I decided that I'd never be allowed to use Search again unless I reported it, so I ageed to do it. This triggered AOL online to start, but AOL was confused about what it considered "an unrequested URL" and
then AOL froze.
I tried everything. Could not get AOL to minimize, turn off and shut down or anything else.
So I turned the computer off. When I attempted to re-boot, the computer came up in a different manner than I have seen before. It asked as it was booting if I wanted to hit F8 for a reboot in safe mode.
Not doing that, I would get a black screen, with a small white border, a cursor AND NO WINDOWS START MENU.
I then tried turning the computer off, rebooting and choosing the safe mode. But then when it went to the new screen, it asked if I wanted to proceed the normal way, oir if I wanted to choose a method that might not preserve my recoverable data but would allow safe mode to occur.
The whole language throws me.
I am confused big time.
If I choose this second option - does that mean that all my data is lost that is on my hard drive?
WhenI turn the compuer off, my original wallpaper flawshes at me for a brief second. So I know all is not lost.
But what do I do?
Carol Dagg Sterritt
As I was finishing my work, I thought I'd click the photo off by selecting the "x" in the minimize maximize off menu that formed the top border of the photo.
Unfortunately I hit something else and the photo became my wallpaper.
I forget what I did to get my original wallpaper back, but at that point, when I saw my original wallpaper back, I thought everything was fine.
I then decided to go to the start menu and use the search function.
While searching for a file, the ominous dialogue box came up saying that there was an error with the Windows Explorer end of things and did I want to report it to MicroSoft?
I did not do so then, but later on, again when trying to use "Search" I got the same message. I decided that I'd never be allowed to use Search again unless I reported it, so I ageed to do it. This triggered AOL online to start, but AOL was confused about what it considered "an unrequested URL" and
then AOL froze.
I tried everything. Could not get AOL to minimize, turn off and shut down or anything else.
So I turned the computer off. When I attempted to re-boot, the computer came up in a different manner than I have seen before. It asked as it was booting if I wanted to hit F8 for a reboot in safe mode.
Not doing that, I would get a black screen, with a small white border, a cursor AND NO WINDOWS START MENU.
I then tried turning the computer off, rebooting and choosing the safe mode. But then when it went to the new screen, it asked if I wanted to proceed the normal way, oir if I wanted to choose a method that might not preserve my recoverable data but would allow safe mode to occur.
The whole language throws me.
I am confused big time.
If I choose this second option - does that mean that all my data is lost that is on my hard drive?
WhenI turn the compuer off, my original wallpaper flawshes at me for a brief second. So I know all is not lost.
But what do I do?
Carol Dagg Sterritt
