Everything corrupt on WinXp

[stheelders]

Hi Dear Folks!

A few weeks ago my computer crashed and i couldn't start WinXp. I had to repair it with the Windows cd. Luckily it worked. Everything was fine for a while until it began to crash again. I used the previous method to solve it several times. I don't know what made these crashes but I changed anti-virus programs and firewall from to the heavier ones.

After a while some programs stopped working. I can't see the system tray (systray doesn't show on task manager), internet explorer closes down after opening ( though I can use Mozilla). Sometimes I can't paste anything. Forget dragging a file to another map. The explorer search shows only the dog picture, with no bars where you can type.... and God knows what else there is

I don't why it is doing this. I thought it might have happened because my brother messed up with msconfig. But even if I look try to manually start - say - systray, it doesn't work.

Please help me, I am desperate.

[Reverend]

Have you got the latest drivers installed for your graphics card?

Do you have any custom styles installed?

[stheelders]

Yes. But now that you mention it I had some problems with Net Framework. I installed the version 2, but it couldn't update properly sometime.

[Reverend]

Do you have any restore points you can revert back to prior to when your problems started.


Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Sytem Restore

[stheelders]

I am unable to install some softwares. Recently I tried to repair Net Framework, but i get an error.

I would praise some help

[stheelders]

I don't have system tray (if that is what it is called). Where can find that systemrestore

[stheelders]

Hi again

I tried to start the system restore in msconfig
But I got this message (translation)

Systemrestore cannot protect the computer. Restart and start system restore again

[Reverend]

Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Sytem Restore.

If you don't have a start button press the windows key on your keyboard and that will open the menu.

[stheelders]

I tried that. It doesn't work since systray isn't on.

[rik]

Boot into Safe Mode (typically accessed by tapping F8 during boot) and see if you can run System Restore from there. At this point it's gonna be a long shot but you can try.