I read the thread all the way back and no one here
>has ever had my problem. Perhaps no one who has ever had a computer has had this
>problem. It is embarrassing and I am not crazy. Nor does the computer have a virus.
> This damn computer turns text files into some kind of hieroglyphics that myself
>and the Word Perfect converter don't know. It also singles out graphics or pulls
>them out of the air and turns text into gif files. I am deadly serious. I have
>a picture of a safety pin that was a book review, and I never put any picture of
>any safety pin in the file or even in the computer. I print and store my files
>in folders now that's how bad it is. If it doesn't do either of these two things,
> then the file just vanishes most of the time. I called Dell (many times) and
>they wanted me to do a repair reinstall. This is my first computer and I've only
>had it since March. I can't work the taskbar and quick launch links yet. I don't
>think I'm ready for a repair reinstall. I just did CHKDSK again both ways after
>reading the thread and it's fine. I am constantly running tests on it and it passes.
> I scan for viruses all the time. I have several firewalls. Here is a sample of
>what I found today when I went to retrieve some text I had filed: ‚iij®®àèèèããã’’’¸¸òjjm¯¯¯åååÚÚÚ~~’ffg¶¶¶nnn���ÖÖÖ��­¨¨Ö­­­xx…
>
>
>Can anyone help me? I was having a problem in that I no matter what I did I could
>not get rid of files offering to "open with paint." But now I let the paint program
>expire and deleted it entirely from the file associations to open with for every
>single file extension and it is still happening. I changed each file extension
>by hand for file associations "open with," but then I'm still afraid so I stick
>with mostly internet explorer on the fly or AOL to open. I would suspect AOL and
>their habit of collapsing graphics but their files seem to be the only ones that
>don't turn turn into crazy pictures.
>
>Do I just need Dell to give me another new computer (this is number two) or what?
> Have any of you ever heard of such a thing? Can you imagine how it is happening?
> What would you do?
>
>I am so beaten by this problem I didn't even tell you the worst. The computer keeps
>jumbling the files. There are system files hiding in files like "favorites." I
>mean there are some important sounding files that are SYS just buried with a bunch
>of junk several layers down into documents.
>
>I have never even opened the registry for fear of what I might find and what opening
>it might do.

Written in response to: Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems' (MsGranddame: Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 11:24 am) There are presently no replies to this message.

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