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HyperLamer
Posts: 4561/8210 |
Well I really doubt that was the problem, but try changing them back anyway. You never know what'll fix something. I just had Firefox crash and it actually fixed several problems I was having with extensions.  |
Sukasa
Posts: 639/1981 |
I did change my personal settings, changing to the silver XPour scheme and inceeasing my screen sie, but that's it. |
tuna
Posts: 329/2 |
A good idea would be reinstalling IE, since it likely got corrupted somehow (or, as previously stated, some nasty trojan/virus/worm/(spy/ad)ware/hijack got in there and fucked it up)... I'd just recommend reinstalling IE and using some small defense program (like, say, Teatimer (SB S&D)) or something similar, and scanning for a virus.
Worst case senario you have to reinstall Windows, provided you have a key.
Just a quick question, was anything going wrong before IE started crapping out on you, or did you do anything prior to it? Sometimes running some program, changing a setting, or anything can have dire effects on a computer. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4542/8210 |
BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death. It basically tells you what screwed up. XP is set by default not to show them, though. But like Tomguy said sometimes it still shows them for a few seconds before it restarts. Both mine and the school's will show it for about half a second. |
Sukasa
Posts: 592/1981 |
I can't. this is my mom's computer. waht do you guys mean be BSOD? All I get is I dblclick the IE icon, or the EXE itself, or the start menu icons, and it instantly reboots. no questions asked. |
kitty
Posts: 1352/2449 |
HH: I have it set to reboot. I still get the BSOD, get to see the error message. After about 5-10 seconds, the BSOD times out and it reboots.
If I'm here when it happens, I see why. If not, I don't care anyway. And besides, I haven't had a problem in a while, my last reboot was automatic when lightning hit and the surge rebooted my PC automatically. I hate to think what would have happened if I didn't have an APC UPS on both of my PCs (mine and my parents'). My company truck got hit, over $3600 in damage!
Even if you restored it, the virus is probably still there. Go to here, scan, then download and use Firefox to prevent viruses from automatically executing in Internet Exploder. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4535/8210 |
Standard, yes. This is an emergency restart though. Basically a BSOD but it skips the actual error message and just reboots. |
Sukasa
Posts: 584/1981 |
Just a question- but wouldn't any standard windows restart at least allow windows to save it's settings and shut down with the "windows is shutting down" screen? |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4532/8210 |
One thing to consider is to go into Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery Settings and turn off Automatically Restart, so you can actually see the error message. Frankly I don't know why they even put such a stupid option in there, it only makes it so that you can't tell what's wrong when Windows won't boot.  |
Sukasa
Posts: 579/1981 |
yea, about two hours after posting this, I fixed the problem by system restoring to May 1st. The same fricken virus is killing has killed my school district's internet, and I actually (I WAS NOT drunk or anything) noticed that the Virus adaptedd to my efforts outside of safe mode, methodically disabling taskman, IE, msconfig, the administrator profile, etc. |
Ailure
Posts: 9693/11162 |
In Linux you don't need to solve probles by reinstalling the whole thing. Things are more stable in Linux, but it's harder to get everything right... 
Tried System restore? It can be a faulty plugin or some spyware/virus that is causing IE to go "poof". Can you look around on the files through "My computer"? Becuse if you can, IE is not fully broken. (yes, Windows does use IE as a file browser too...)
Check for Ad-aware, use another browser such as Firefox or Opera to download it if you can't just IE. Hell, download Firefox/Opera/Whatever from another computer if you have problems. |
Legion
Posts: 3761/5657 |
Why would switching to Linux help him in any way? If he's having problems with Internet Explorer, then he's going to have his problems increased 1000 fold if he starts using Linux. |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1333/1574 |
There are a few options you can do in no particular order:
1. Try reinstalling Windows.
2. Try reinstalling IE
3. Use FireFox
4. Switch to Linux |
Sukasa
Posts: 572/1981 |
Well, the title says it all. WinXP on this computer automatically restarts without any shutdown screens or anything, just goes POOF! when I try to open IE outside of Safe mode. I could really use some help here. any suggestions on how to fix this? My parents trust me to take care of our house computers, but I can't do much when Norton is not being updated. Could anyone help here, because this is a major problem. MSN messenger seems to work fine for my brother, though. |
