[RANT] No taskbar or start button

[Bahumat]

Originally Posted by soze

A clean re install including wiping the current partition will blitz it and it should be fine. But befor you go extreme it maybe worth running spyware scans as if you can't change the resolution in Display in control panel it sounds like that AntiVirus XP 2008 rubbish. SuperAntiSpyware and MalwareBytes sort that out.

Superantispyware found things, removed them but I still had the annoying virus on my dads pc. Also if you go into msconfig from Start > RUn you can see a whole ton of weird .exe's

In the end I reloaded as there was nothing of real worth on the pc

[Edmond]

Originally Posted by Bahumat

In the end I reloaded as there was nothing of real worth on the pc

Thats what i did do in the end, lost a few things, but it was the 6 hours of updating and re-installing drivers that pissed me off

[Bahumat]

Originally Posted by Edmond

Thats what i did do in the end, lost a few things, but it was the 6 hours of updating and re-installing drivers that pissed me off

hehe yeah you always forget about that. My dad's pc was from a shop and I had no drivers for it. luckily it was a dell and their website had them!

[nath]

Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu

For future use, download a live CD from there, it's absolutely stonkingly useful. If windows is totally ballsed, you can fire it up from the CD and copy data to an external drive - saves you taking out the hard drive and plugging it in to an alternate machine. I cannot tell you how useful this disc has been to me, definitely something every windows user should have stored somewhere just in case.

[Kryten]

Just a quick ditto for Nath's comments - I have a 3 CD "repair set" that covers absolutely every eventuality - a Hirens disc, Ultimate Boot CD and of course a Ubuntu live CD. Got me out of a few scrapes and helped me out with a shedload of repairs on other folks' machines, especially for cheap & easy data recovery

[Bob007]

No barts PE ? pff

[Edmond]

Thanks guys, you've all been very helpfull

[Sar]

I'd second the Ubuntu live cd - it's saved my data on a couple of occassions.

[Kryten]

Originally Posted by Bob007

No barts PE ? pff

You're quite right, I do indeed have a Barts disk too, but it has really become pretty much redundant due to the other 3, mostly the linux liveCD as it's better at reading windows file systems than Windows is, and Ultimate BootCD has all the useful password & file system retrievers etc