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I changed my desktop view from XP View to Classic View to see if it would
help performance. It did not help. When I tried to change my desktop
appearance from Classic View to XP View I could not; the system would freeze,
and I had to unplug the power from the CPU to reboot.
My system is a Dimension 4600 with a 2.6 GHz P4 and 1.25GB RAM.
Additionally, I have a NEC ND-3520A (DVD Writer), a Sony CRX-216E (CD-RW), a
Maxtor 6E040L0, and a Western Digital WD800JB.
I am running Win XP with SP2, Ad-Aware SE 1.05 with reference file SE1R38
11.04.2005, ZoneAlarm 5.5.062.011, and AVG 7.0.308 with definition file
266.9.9. My ISP is Time Warner, and I have RoadRunner service.
I ran both Ad-Aware and AVG scans to check for spyware and virises, and they
reported no spyware and no viruses. I ran HiJackThis and had the log checked
on the HiJack board at Dell. The log did not show any problems.
Well, I did a system restore to a date before I changed the desktop, and now
I have my XP View back. Unfortunately, I had to restore to a date prior to
upgrades of MySQL and GIMP.
So I go to Add/Remove and get a message that I cannot uninstall GIMP (for
example, but the same thing happens with MySQL with a different file) because
the uninst000.dat file is missing. I know it is in folder c:\program
files\gimp-2.2(2) because system restore told me the folder had been renamed.
So I understand system restore renamed the folder because a folder of the
same name was to be restored. What I do not understand is why the restored
folder does not contain the complete set of original files.
Now I am unsure if I should (1) rename the restored folder to something else
and rename the old folder back to the original name and uninstall or (2) move
the required files to the restored folder and uninstall.
In addition, my DVD Writer now shows only 2 changes to Region left, although
I have only changed it once, and it had never showed anything other than 4
before the restore (from when I set it after I installed the drive). How do
I get myself into these situations?
Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.
I changed my desktop view from XP View to Classic View to see if it would
help performance. It did not help. When I tried to change my desktop
appearance from Classic View to XP View I could not; the system would freeze,
and I had to unplug the power from the CPU to reboot.
My system is a Dimension 4600 with a 2.6 GHz P4 and 1.25GB RAM.
Additionally, I have a NEC ND-3520A (DVD Writer), a Sony CRX-216E (CD-RW), a
Maxtor 6E040L0, and a Western Digital WD800JB.
I am running Win XP with SP2, Ad-Aware SE 1.05 with reference file SE1R38
11.04.2005, ZoneAlarm 5.5.062.011, and AVG 7.0.308 with definition file
266.9.9. My ISP is Time Warner, and I have RoadRunner service.
I ran both Ad-Aware and AVG scans to check for spyware and virises, and they
reported no spyware and no viruses. I ran HiJackThis and had the log checked
on the HiJack board at Dell. The log did not show any problems.
Well, I did a system restore to a date before I changed the desktop, and now
I have my XP View back. Unfortunately, I had to restore to a date prior to
upgrades of MySQL and GIMP.
So I go to Add/Remove and get a message that I cannot uninstall GIMP (for
example, but the same thing happens with MySQL with a different file) because
the uninst000.dat file is missing. I know it is in folder c:\program
files\gimp-2.2(2) because system restore told me the folder had been renamed.
So I understand system restore renamed the folder because a folder of the
same name was to be restored. What I do not understand is why the restored
folder does not contain the complete set of original files.
Now I am unsure if I should (1) rename the restored folder to something else
and rename the old folder back to the original name and uninstall or (2) move
the required files to the restored folder and uninstall.
In addition, my DVD Writer now shows only 2 changes to Region left, although
I have only changed it once, and it had never showed anything other than 4
before the restore (from when I set it after I installed the drive). How do
I get myself into these situations?
Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.