Hey,
I'm having a bizarre problem with Vista Home 32 bit which suddenly appeared overnight. I put my notebook to sleep the day before, and when I powered it back on this morning, it was on the black & white boot up menu saying the notebook and crashed and had to restart.
I opted to boot windows normally but it kept restarting. Same problem with safe mode.
I tried to repair the installation with the installation disc but that didn't work.
Got to System Restore, tried to restore a previous point, but that failed.
I rebooted again, and miraculously it booted up to the desktop. But I've noticed a few major problems:
1. The program folder in the start menu is empty
2. The system tray has missing icons, most notably network connections
3. A few directories in C:\ are missing . Am sure I didn't delete them.
4. Many applications like MS Office or Adobe Acrobat are missing / have broken links and therefore do not work.
I have 2 user accounts on the notebook and both have similar problems.
When I boot up in Safe Mode, the program folder has a few applications listed, but the other problems remain.
System Restore doesn't work. It returns an error message saying a file's missing or something like that.
I feel something's corrupted but I don't even know how to begin searching for a solution to the problem since the symptoms are all over the place!
Would appreciate any help!
I'm having a bizarre problem with Vista Home 32 bit which suddenly appeared overnight. I put my notebook to sleep the day before, and when I powered it back on this morning, it was on the black & white boot up menu saying the notebook and crashed and had to restart.
I opted to boot windows normally but it kept restarting. Same problem with safe mode.
I tried to repair the installation with the installation disc but that didn't work.
Got to System Restore, tried to restore a previous point, but that failed.
I rebooted again, and miraculously it booted up to the desktop. But I've noticed a few major problems:
1. The program folder in the start menu is empty
2. The system tray has missing icons, most notably network connections
3. A few directories in C:\ are missing . Am sure I didn't delete them.
4. Many applications like MS Office or Adobe Acrobat are missing / have broken links and therefore do not work.
I have 2 user accounts on the notebook and both have similar problems.
When I boot up in Safe Mode, the program folder has a few applications listed, but the other problems remain.
System Restore doesn't work. It returns an error message saying a file's missing or something like that.
I feel something's corrupted but I don't even know how to begin searching for a solution to the problem since the symptoms are all over the place!
Would appreciate any help!