HOWEVER you could (maybe) lose anything you did after the restore point you select. If you decide to Restore, I would suggest that you choose to first make a Restore Point for today, so you can come back to where you are right now if necessary.

Go to Start button>Acessories>System Tools>System Restore.


On Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 9:29 am, lorraine wrote:
>1st, apologies if i'm in the wrong place for this help.
>If so, pls links to where i could get this prob solved.
>what's the opposite of computer geek or techie or
>whatever that term is? That's ME! <-| "Preserved
>spacing" as it looked *way* to garbled the other way.
>let me know if that's ok. Also, did some puttering with
>it after looking at the preview and saw 2ft. long lines!
>
>so sorry for not making note of specific terms when
>this happened, but i thought i was doing ok...'til....
>i went into msconfig and unchecked some programs
>to stop them from opening automatically and running
>in the bkgrd. Don't often reboot, so when i did a few
>days later, my opening window had a msg that i needed
>to put it all back like before. So i ck'd the 'put it into
>original ... ' button and every single thing in the System
>Config. Utility, Startup window had been opened up.
>NOT what i wanted at all! So i tried to remember what
>ones had been ck'd b4, to no avail.
>
>Can i somehow take pictures [thinking print screen to
>Word] of the list and upload it here somehow for someone
>to look at and help me ck / unck what i need to start up?
>thank you all so much! lorraine
>
>here are my computer specs, in case you need them.
>Not sure what of this is needed, but...
>OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 2002
>Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
>OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
>System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
>System Model Dimension 8300
>System Type X86-based PC
>Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2992 Mhz
>BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A05, 2/23/2004
>SMBIOS Version 2.3
>Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
>File System NTSF
>Monitor:Gforce FX 5200, adapter: AGP 8X, memory 128mb, system:
>processor- Intel Pentium[r] 4 with SSE2 directX version – 9.0+
>Dell Optiplex Gx270, Intel[R]
>
>Total Physical Memory 2.99GHz, 512.00 MB [2x256]
>CAPACITY FOR 4GB ~ 4 slots
>Options:
>*Buy 2 more 256MB and fill up the slots to get 1GB.
>*Buy 2 ~ 1GB $150@ [must buy 2] and fill up the slots to get 2.5GB.
>{this is better because, if I want to upgrade to 4GB later,
>I can just take out the 2x256 and put two more 1GB in their slots}

Written in response to: lil'o'lady made mstak & need 2 know how 2 clean up my [specific] startup menu (lorraine: Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 9:29 am) There are presently no replies to this message.

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