Question about 'Prevent file corruption problems'
Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 11:24 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MsGranddame
(3 messages posted)
I have a question about Prevent
file corruption problems: 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㒒jjm~~ffgnnn֭xx
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.
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