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re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?'
Monday, September 1, 2003 at 6:37 pm
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Posted by snarle (1 messages posted)


quit installing crap programs like juno and realplayer.. these scumbag companies will take over your computer and fuk you in the arse. when something is "FREE" it just means you dont pay with money but you pay with your privacy and with the stability of your pc.


On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 12:14 pm, drew wrote:
>I have a question about All
>of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?
:


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>When I reboot, all my icons turn into black squares and my mouse freezes. I believe
>that's a bona fide "crash."
>This occurred after I attempted to adjust my monitor resolution settings. It has
>happened before and I fixed problem using boot disk and going through safe mode and
>uncluttering my ram. Now when I can't get to safe mode.I'll enter it when highlighted
>but I just get a:prompt all over again. Working through the help file I was informed
>that command.com, extract.? and ?./?(my ?'s) could not be found. Do I have a corrupted
>boot disk. I tried it on two different ones so i tend to think not. I have been unusually
>active lately downloading often to desktop lots of info concerning our recent debacle.
>I have also since downloaded juno and realplayer. If i could get to safe mode , I
>would uninstall realplayer, move new files to a floppy or at least off the desktop,
>and uninstall juno all in that order(I have another ISP).
>
>Thoughts?Suggestions?


Written in response to:
Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Friday, September 21, 2001 at 12:14 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (GabrielTech: Saturday, October 2, 2004 at 8:27 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 12:14 pm)
-re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (amaralliya e. thenardier: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 3:06 pm)
*suggestion... (amaralliya e. thenardier: Fri, Sep 21, 2001, 3:11 pm)
-re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Mon, Sep 24, 2001, 7:55 am)
*re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Mark: Wed, Nov 28, 2001, 8:18 pm)
-re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (sudhagar singh: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 10:56 am)
*re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (cazz: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:49 am)
-re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (snarle: Mon, Sep 1, 2003, 6:37 pm)
*re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (GabrielTech: Sat, Oct 2, 2004, 8:27 am)
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