My Laptop

Two things I'd suggest you do when you get started again, one is firefox has a plugin called xmarks, this saves all your bookmarks on a server that you can access from any where and comes in real handy if your away from your computer and using someone else s! For things like this you could access this and just reload it, it's a great program but you have to keep updating it as you go along, but this a small price to pay! The next is Mozy.com lets you back up your system for free at a server on their site, this is a great free program for helping people just like you! For you never know when this will happen again, and it will eventually it happens to the best of us! tdemex

I know what you are going thru as I didnt have one of my puters for 3 weeks after I just got it took them that long to figure that the processor wasnt work so they sent a new one was so glad to get nback on I did a happy dnce but so sorry that you are still haveing problem!

Hiya Gabs

Aww I'm so sorry to hear this hon, I have my newish laptop (a year and a half lol)
and I would hate to have everything wiped from it! I did pull it off the bedside cabinet recently and broke the mains lead pin, but my bro fixed it. I am very wary of downloading anything that says it will make your system faster...that usually means deleting files, but if it's files you need then you're snookered! Hope you get it back to how you had it.

Alice

Hi Gabs, I'm sorry for your situation. Normally when I have something like close to crashing of the PC, I take the recovery CD and reboot the system back and everything. And if things get stuck, I just go to the restore button and backdate back to the date when the PC wasn't crashed. How many browsers do you have besides Firefox? Try to have only 1 search engine installed for the moment. I am actually not a big fan of Vista, it's quite complicated for me to understand. I would panic too if I see the error Operation System not found, yikes!

It took me a while to get used to Vista as well. I am so sorry this has caused you so much trouble. I don't know why people get their kicks at creating things that destroy others computers and technological devices. I hope you can start getting your laptop back to how you want it very soon.

Hi Gabs, sorry to hear about your Laptop, I've got vista on my PC, and never had any problems with Firefox, although I use Opera as my main browser with Firefox as Backup. I also have a laptop with XP, and use Opera 7 Firefox there as well. If you are still having trouble with Firefox, then why not try Opera?

You should perhaps try and do a complete backup onto an external hard disk (they've come down in price quite a lot recently and a reasonable size one can be bought for around £35-£40, even a 1 Tb is under £70). Still expensive I know, but compared to having to get your laptop re-configured can be cheaper in the long run.

Are you sure Gissi hasn't been playing with it and changing the configuration behind your back.

I feel what you are going through there Gabs! I miss my computer that Rob built for me, but the power supply went poof,I can't afford right now to get a new one. I hope you get it all straightened out soon. Computers are such a headache at times.

So your saying you downloaded some crap, then deleted important stuff you need?

Also be careful downloading any kind of free adware or virus cleaners because they will also delete important files.

Last time this happened to me I just went and bought a new laptop.

I bought a new one because was cheaper than having it repaired again.

hi gabs oh I do wish we lived close to you so I could have sent my computer programmer son over to help you out.once when I had a problem similar to yours he just went into something that set everything back to where it was before your computer crashed.that way you would not lose anything. but I sure would not know how to solve your problem either, in fact it sounds like you have more computer expertise than I do. I have always been dubious of programs that say they will give you more memory, as it would only come with deleting something, and maybe something you would not want deleted.We are seriously contemplating upgrading my 2000 windows,that is so old, to something newer, maybe vista. but my son says and I agree, we have to wait until he gets a bit more money. I suggested a used program but he said, and I realized he was right,that a used program will not let you record it so if you had any problems you could not call the company but if you buy new then you will register it and then should something go wrong you could get help. anyway I do hope you get everything all back to normal. and oh please do not rip out your hair, sounds so painful

hy to you and have a nice day, i am sorry to hear about your problem but everithing will be ok just fixit and dont think about it