Help! I've killed my computer!

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I would LOVE it if someone can help me.
This may not even be a Windows issue. I was on the internet the other night
and all of sudden it looked like something was downloading. I cancelled it,
and rebooted my computer. Well, it appears that the system reboots correctly,
but when I try to open an application, nothing happens. When I try to open
the Start menu, there's an hour glass. What should I do?
 
I would LOVE it if someone can help me.
This may not even be a Windows issue. I was on the internet the other night
and all of sudden it looked like something was downloading. I cancelled it,
and rebooted my computer. Well, it appears that the system reboots correctly,
but when I try to open an application, nothing happens. When I try to open
the Start menu, there's an hour glass. What should I do?
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Turn OFF automatic updates, or STOP doing things until you know what
they are!!!
 
You're gonna have to take it somewhere and get it "cleaned up". There is no
real way anyone here is going to be able to fix it with newsgroups
messages,...it requires "hands on".


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Phillip Windell
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The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
 
erickanicoleas said:
I would LOVE it if someone can help me.
This may not even be a Windows issue. I was on the internet the other night
and all of sudden it looked like something was downloading. I cancelled it,
and rebooted my computer. Well, it appears that the system reboots correctly,
but when I try to open an application, nothing happens. When I try to open
the Start menu, there's an hour glass. What should I do?
Click to expand...

Try booting into safe mode and then shutting down normally before
booting up in normal mode again. Sometimes this helps. If that does
not help, try restoring the registry from the command line to a time
when you know it booted okay. You may lose a few things, but that
should work. By the way, what exactly were you downloading when you
canceled the download. You should probably not cancel such downloads
unless you know what it is. It might have just been a security update.
Worse comes to worse, you can try using your windows install disk and
select repair. I have not had much luck with that, but it will be
something to try; hopefully you won't have to reinstall your operating
system. As for taking it somewhere, only if you have lots of money to
throw away and they will probably just reinstall you operating system
which is something you can do yourself though make sure you backup any
data that is important to you either by a boot disk or some type of live CD.

Z.K.
 
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