[an0n]

Here's a hint: When using XP and you accidentally restart it in SafeMode instead of normal booting, suddenly cutting the power so you can prevent the Safe-Mode restart and get into a normal boot quicker is NOT a good idea.

I just did it and it's destroyed all my settings. All the files are fine, but my desktop is blank (despite all the files actually being there), it's lost all my pass's, my display settings, my internet connection and pretty much everything else.

So, in short: ****.

[kasperl]

....and have a nice day.

[Flipside]

Thats.....odd

Tried a rollback to before the problem?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Flipside
Thats.....odd

Tried a rollback to before the problem?

I see that ASDA's subliminal messages are working.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by an0n
Here's a hint: When using XP and you accidentally restart it in SafeMode instead of normal booting, suddenly cutting the power so you can prevent the Safe-Mode restart and get into a normal boot quicker is NOT a good idea.

I just did it and it's destroyed all my settings. All the files are fine, but my desktop is blank (despite all the files actually being there), it's lost all my pass's, my display settings, my internet connection and pretty much everything else.

So, in short: ****.

It does the same thing if you kill it when its shutting down! Right when its says "Saving Your Settings".

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Bad luck, I hope it's all recoverable.
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[Flipside]

Maybe it's the ghost of IRC past hehehehehe

[an0n]

It doesn't need recovering. It's all still there. I can go into Docs'N'Settings and see all the files, it just refuses to put them on the desktop.

[kasperl]

wrong user login?

[Liberator]

I think it's safe to say that between ME and XP, Windows is becoming something of an albatross.

Have you checked the settings to see if they are set to Hidden?

[Stryke 9]

Egh... I'm loath to say anything bad about XP, 'cos it's such a huge improvement over 2000 it isn't even funny. After years of having my computer lock up every other hour at best and losing everything to viruses because of some idiot, I'm inclined to be overly charitable towards any OS that doesn't lock up just sitting there and can run all my programs relatively well. And is idiot-proof, in that the computer I run it on has me as admin, and I locked all the idiots out.

I don't know what you're doing to your computer, an0n, between this and the installer mess-up... But yeah, it seems like Microsoft's stopped accounting for when things actually do go wrong.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stryke 9

I don't know what you're doing to your computer, an0n, between this and the installer mess-up... But yeah, it seems like Microsoft's stopped accounting for when things actually do go wrong.

When did they start?

[Stryke 9]

I remember there being replacements available for basically everything before XP, and Safe Mode actually working.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
I remember there being replacements available for basically everything before XP, and Safe Mode actually working.

I think Windows 3.1 worked ok for me, that was about it.... oh, wait - that was DOS.

[Liberator]

I have never had a major complaint about 98se.

[Drew]

an0n iv had this problem before. I accidentaly deleted my user account (in DOS). what i did, created a new user, then swich back to the other account, then copy *everything* from that users Docs&settings to the other users docs&settings. Itl be a pain but it works out....

[Stealth]

hehe yeah that soundsl ike it might work :-d

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by Liberator
I have never had a major complaint about 98se.

Wow... You must be one of very few...

[Fineus]

I think it depends what you try and do with it. If all you do is use the stock hardware... play the most reliable of games and use it for documents etc. Then it's pretty stable.

However... stray from the straight and narrow even a bit and there's a deep dark pit of Microsoft Hell awaiting you.

[pyro-manic]

All I know is it BSODded me every chance it got...