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Clicking on Icons Doesn't Produce Results
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Clicking on Icons Doesn't Produce Results
Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Posted by PBrown7777
(1 messages posted)
Occasionally (not always) when clicking on a desktop icon (any icon), the program
doesn't start, but after a while a small window appears that says "windows is unable
to locate". I then have to reboot, but I can't restart from the screen, I have to
reboot from the CPU and then everything is fine and it might be okay for a few days.
Any ideas? Also, when Windows 7 is released, will this take care of the problem?
I also heard that HP drivers won't work with Windows 7. Does this mean my HP OfficeJet
6500 printer won't work or mercy me, my HP computer? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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re: Clicking on Icons Doesn't Produce Results
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 7:42 am
Posted by MartinM
(7551 messages posted)
You should post your questions about W7 in the W7 forum - its just that that's where
the people with experience of W7 are more likely to look. Meantime, beware of making
any assumptions about forward compatibility !
The first step when investigating a "hang" such as you describe is to look in Event
Viewer (look in its 'System' category) for any events with a Red Cross around the
time of a hang. Double click the item to get details, maybe post back at that stage
?
At a guess, nothing more, you may have an intermittent hardware issue or some corrupt
system files.
W7 will obviously not fix a hardware issue. It could fix corrupt files, but so would
a reinstall of Vista (or maybe a repair/install, or SFC). Get some more information
on the problem before thinking about solutions I suggest.
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