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explorer not running :(
The Cabl3 Guy
Elite Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
Everyday it just gets worse & worse. Now for some reason Explorer.exe is not running. I opened up ADAWARE removed some spyware & now its not loading up. I even used task manager to do it manually. GRRRRR...help. :(
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by The Cabl3 Guy [/i]
[B]Everyday it just gets worse & worse. Now for some reason Explorer.exe is not running. I opened up ADAWARE removed some spyware & now its not loading up. I even used task manager to do it manually. GRRRRR...help. :( [/B][/QUOTE]
You check for virus recently too?
What windows version? Might want to repair Windows with a fresh copy of Explorer.exe or one of the numerous DLL's that might be grunged.
winnt\system32\config
Anything in that dir that has no extension...thats your Local Machine registry info. If it goes, you can't even boot Windows. This happened the other day on my parent's comp. Oh - and not only that, but it is impossible to back up while in windows. The file is always in use. So you have to boot off a floppy or into Linux to back it up. Of course NTFS type partitions make that even harder (one reason why I always install the OS onto a FAT32 partition even if I use NTFS for all my data).
The other day i was running adaware on a comp at work and explorer.exe would crash and then adaware would perform an illegal operation. it ran ok once i booted into safe mode.
I mean.. Imagine someone doing you a lobotomy every month or so? :P
Christ.. my windows prolly needs one every week..
Too bad you cant intimidate computers that well..
[B]RC: Linux has been able to read NTFS fine for quite a while now. Any half-decent live CD will have the module available. Thus you can happily install the OS onto an NTFS partition and get the benefits of a journaling file system. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah...but it is easier using a floppy :)
[B]I format fairly regularly. at least once a year. [/B][/QUOTE]
I just fail to understand regular formatting. You loose all your prefs and all your settings and all data on the OS drive. I have to say I am no where near organized enough to keep my data just on my data drives, nor my programs just on my programs drive. It took me 2 days to rebuild my parent's comp and my system is far more complicated then theirs in terms of setup and #apps installed - it would take me over a week of 12 hour days installing stuff to get everything that I use back on it.
You can reinstall the OS without reformatting...
Frankly only after 4-5 years have I even had Win98 get to a state where I had to reformat (and that was to Linux). Win2k (now at 3 years on this comp) I have never reinstalled, even after major hardware upgrades like changing mobo and CPU.
--RC
To these sorts of people it doesnt 'feel' clean until its been totally stripped and cleaned out to the Nth degree. All lthats happening here is that the neat freaks are migrating to a new translation of old obsessions. :)
It more often got to do with the psychological state of the person rather than the actual functionality of the machine.
I'd be willing to bet that if someone saw the state of my comp desktop they'd break out into a sweat and desperately want to 'clean it up a little'. Then they'd look at my filing systems and get really tense... :)
If any of you remember Ahashes nice neat, orderly workstation pics... his generally consevative views... they all go together...
...as a rule of thumb it certainly seems to hold fast.
[B]If any of you remember Ahashes nice neat, orderly workstation pics... his generally consevative views... they all go together...
...as a rule of thumb it certainly seems to hold fast. [/B][/QUOTE]
Well...my system looks real nice and orderly. But it is absolute chaos once you get past the venier of my desktop interface.
Why?
Becuase I like to find things. I keep data well organized but my apps are absolutely in chaos. And when I say by well organized, well...that is a matter of perspective. If you mean that I have data on 5 different physical partitions that is in very well defined directory structures...thats ordered :)
Lets see:
C:
windows (OS)
tv recordings temp (DATA)
program files (APPS)
games (APPS)
graphics filters (DATA/APPS)
docs and settings (DATA)
F:
backups (DATA)
Data Directories (virtual directory linked to partiton)
dos programs (APPS)
Program Files (virtual directory linked to partition)
TV Recordings (virtual directory linked to partition)
to burn (DATA) - for making up CDs before burning
python (APPS)
games (APPS)
G:
games (APPS)
game data (DATA) - this is for RPGs and board games
model railroad (DATA)
Program Files (virtual directory linked to partition)
oracle (APPS)
J: aka F:\Data Directories
my docs (DATA)
images (DATA) - 3d wallpaper and NASA stuff
render (DATA) - blender stuff
oracle (DATA)
web data (DATA) - web site construction
program files (APPS) - oops... :)
other DATA stuff
Y: aka F:\TV Recordings
tv recordings (DATA)
Z: aka F:\Program Files and G:\Program Files
lots of apps (APPS)
Ok...why do I link F an G progs to Z? Well...that is becuase Z is on my 160GB drive. F and G are on my 80GB drive. I filled up the 80GB and needed more room! :)
Ok...why does J have a program files dir? Well...I installed apps on J before I decided to use dynamic linking. Luckily I hadn't hit H and I yet (which are now Y and Z) so I only had J that I had to leave as J with progs on it.
Technically Y and Z don't exist...unless I ever look in My Computer. J doesn't exist except for the few programs on it. Rule of my computer is those drives can only be accessed through F...otherwise it gets too confusing with so many partitons :D
C: 6638
F: 7159
G: 306
J: 3741
Y: 2
Z: 7617
This was done using the MSDOS Tree command, piping it to a text file, opening it in a text editor with a line count, and subtracting 3 for the header info. In the case of F and G, I also removed the virtual directory/partition counts so they weren't recorded multiple times.
(damnit...this thing ignores hidden dirs - I have a lot of those to make my system look less of a mess)
Yes - this totals to over 25000 directories. And this is ignoring the hundreds of dirs Windows uses as backup and restricted data storage, or the Docs and Settings app data and local settings dirs, or my J:\program files dir and all its subdirs, or many data dirs that apps feel they MUST stick on root C even if I want root C as clean as possible, or the My Docs settings dir that just clutter up your window...becuase SOME companies feel My Docs is better then Docs and Settings for storing your info! Probably over 1000 more dirs between all those hidden dirs.
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BTW, a tip someone my dad knew used for Windows. He would install windows on a partition the right size to burn to CD (now it would have to be DVD). He would then backup the entire partition to a CD. If the system ever crashed, he could boot off the CD...or copy the whole installed and set up OS from the CD to the HD.
--RC
currently theres three sheets of paper, a number of CD-Roms, my wallet and MP3 player+ headphone, a sodacan, a candy wrapper, and a bag of doretos on my desktop
I doubt you know what messy is....
I knew a couple a few years back.... who had an 8 inch layer of stomped on, badly in need of laundering, clothes, covering thier entire bedroom floor... I mean seriously... no 'tracks' anywhere, just a solid mass of clothes across the whole floor, perhaps with some disturbed patches where they had mined for some undies or a bra or something..:)
thats hardcore..:)
and as I said in IM, its a rule of thumb...