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Help……I was having a clear up of my computer yesterday (history/files etc) and I now find myself thinking I’ve lost my entire Windows software??
I deleted my temp Internet files, cookies and history (on internet options) followed by some other files (word/music/movie). I emptied my recycle bin and then I noticed that on my drop-up tool bar (Start – bottom left of screen) the top four icons were missing their usual pictorial displays as were replaced by a kind of windows icons. An icon on the screen then appeared saying that an illegal operation had taken place and that it would shut down – which it tried to do before kind of freezing on me.
As the computer wouldn’t turn off (as it had freezed) I eventually turned it off from the mains. When I restarted it the ‘Windows Wizard’ box appeared on the screen asking me to accept the Windows agreement (I think it’s the installation wizard??). When I pressed that I accept the terms and conditions it then asks for my Windows registration number?? I don’t have this, as this computer was my dad’s old computer, although I have the disc. If I don’t accept the terms and conditions of the wizard it shuts down and then when I restart the same ‘wizard’ appears. This is the only option I am given (no desk-top or anything).
Any suggestions on what I can do or what has gone on here? Surely I haven’t deleted my Windows software have I???? It seems very strange to me as the operations (ie the deleting internet history etc and the odd file) that I did I have done numerous times before without any problems?
I’m running Windows 98 (2nd edition) on Pentium two processor.
Any help or advice would be so helpful.
Steve
I deleted my temp Internet files, cookies and history (on internet options) followed by some other files (word/music/movie). I emptied my recycle bin and then I noticed that on my drop-up tool bar (Start – bottom left of screen) the top four icons were missing their usual pictorial displays as were replaced by a kind of windows icons. An icon on the screen then appeared saying that an illegal operation had taken place and that it would shut down – which it tried to do before kind of freezing on me.
As the computer wouldn’t turn off (as it had freezed) I eventually turned it off from the mains. When I restarted it the ‘Windows Wizard’ box appeared on the screen asking me to accept the Windows agreement (I think it’s the installation wizard??). When I pressed that I accept the terms and conditions it then asks for my Windows registration number?? I don’t have this, as this computer was my dad’s old computer, although I have the disc. If I don’t accept the terms and conditions of the wizard it shuts down and then when I restart the same ‘wizard’ appears. This is the only option I am given (no desk-top or anything).
Any suggestions on what I can do or what has gone on here? Surely I haven’t deleted my Windows software have I???? It seems very strange to me as the operations (ie the deleting internet history etc and the odd file) that I did I have done numerous times before without any problems?
I’m running Windows 98 (2nd edition) on Pentium two processor.
Any help or advice would be so helpful.
Steve
