KY Chris
January 30th, 2005, 16:54
One of my computers is screwing up all of the sudden.
HP pavillion, Windows 2K Home edition
All of the program icons on my desk top are not responding when I click on them. Some of them can be accessed by right clicking and opening (Lotus notes, etc.) But others, like IE won't open at all (I get part of the home page then, a not responding message). The start up menu links don't open either when I click on them. Under Start , when I click on Programs, it actually says "<empty>" and shows no programs. This is my work computer on a VPN. I am not the administrator, therefore, I can't try logging in under another user, I don't think. I have rights to install programs, etc, but I don't think I am listed as the admin. I checked under my user profile and all of the start up programs were missing. I copied them from an other user shown on the machine (our IT guy) and put them in my folder, but that still didn't make them show up in my start up menu. Any ideas?
My home office is in LA, so I can't get intouch with any of them until tomorrow afternoon. I really don't want to have to ship the machine back to Cali, either.
Is there a way I can renew my user profile and transfer my files? I ran Norton Corp Ed. with the newest def files and found no viruses. This really just sort of started today.
Sucks.
HP pavillion, Windows 2K Home edition
All of the program icons on my desk top are not responding when I click on them. Some of them can be accessed by right clicking and opening (Lotus notes, etc.) But others, like IE won't open at all (I get part of the home page then, a not responding message). The start up menu links don't open either when I click on them. Under Start , when I click on Programs, it actually says "<empty>" and shows no programs. This is my work computer on a VPN. I am not the administrator, therefore, I can't try logging in under another user, I don't think. I have rights to install programs, etc, but I don't think I am listed as the admin. I checked under my user profile and all of the start up programs were missing. I copied them from an other user shown on the machine (our IT guy) and put them in my folder, but that still didn't make them show up in my start up menu. Any ideas?
My home office is in LA, so I can't get intouch with any of them until tomorrow afternoon. I really don't want to have to ship the machine back to Cali, either.
Is there a way I can renew my user profile and transfer my files? I ran Norton Corp Ed. with the newest def files and found no viruses. This really just sort of started today.
Sucks.