Yesterday I was playing a fairly new game called Gothic 2. I was transferring from one zone to the other when it just hung. That is actually normal - the game deliberately hangs while loading the new area. But it didn’t laod anything. Just hung. After a while I had to reset the power switch.
Now I have serious problems.
The clipboard doesn’t work. I can’t copy or paste files or text. This is the same in Windows, Word, or IE.
The preview program doesn’t function right: it won’t show me any of my picture files unless I open it in paint.
My Taskbar is MIA. I’ve got a way to get it back but it seems to hide again whenever I log on again.
Internet explorer now won’t open things in new windows if I right-click.
various windows in my windows XP now show up on top of the taskbar even when I get it back. I can move them around the screen.
Logging on is slower than it used to be.
Seems certain HTML and Javascript functions are no longer working.
I just noticed that whe I tried to click on the smily-links to the right they don’t work.
So far I’ve figured out how to get my taskbar back and tried to re-install IE. The later failed to help. I’ve written to the publisher about getting support but I suspect they can’t. So I turn to you.
Is there anything I can do about these? I have a ghost file that I can re-install my PC with but I’m worried that I’ll kill all my data. I can back up a few things, but my 90 megs of picture files will probably not be in them, and that’s what I really want to keep.
No to the second part… Sir! I keep my system clean without those programs. I’m quite sure I don’t have anything peeking. I watch my installed programs carefully.
WIndows XP, Athlon 1700 mhx, Radeon 9600 se.
Tried to run restore. It demands I reboot before it will work. Not sure what’s going on.
Just because you are very careful of what you install does not mean there isin’t any spywear type stuff – I would have claimed the same a short 3 months ago. Get spybot, run it.
System restore does need to reboot for it to work properly. I couldn’t tell if you did this.
No. It’s supposed to do this and it works. Normally a splash screen comes up to show the next area is loading, but in the meantime the old area is paused.
No. It’s supposed to do this and it works. Normally a splash screen comes up to show the next area is loading, but in the meantime the old area is paused.
You can force WinXP to restore to a previous state (if you’ve been creating restore points) by following the procedure I outlined in this old post. It may require one reboot, but after the reboot everything should be good as gold.
