- Sep 30, 2009
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Hello,
Recently I've ran into some strange issues on my laptop. At first it was just some blue screens which I get randomly about once a week. Besides the occasional crash, nothing was out of the ordinary. Last night, however, I got two BSOD's in a row, one right after the other. First one occurred randomly, second one occurred when the desktop was loading. Afterwards, the system ran fine albeit with strange symptoms now.
This morning I had a blue screen again upon desktop loading after a reboot, and I noticed that the stop code was 0x0000007E (this is all that I remember, I don't remember where to check for logs for this information). But now, here are the very strange issues that persisted since last night:
1.) Start menu is screwed up: My Photos, Documents, and Music folders are labeled with what looks like registry keys (i.e., it will display "{FDD3842-[...]83}" instead of "Documents"), and clicking on them does nothing, as if they are dead links that lead to nowhere. The Start Menu remains open in this case. My "user" folder on the top will open an empty folder for about a tenth of a second before it closes automatically. The start menu disappears normally, as if I clicked on an operational folder in this case. The Games folder and every other folder beneath it works properly. There are the *only* problems I have observed with my Start Menu.
2.) Left-side pane on explorer folders is missing. When I open any folder, the usual "preview and filters" pane that shows up on the left is now gone. There is no menu bar below the title bar unless I switch to "Windows classic folder" view. I'm not sure if what controls this interface also controls the System Update and Control Panel->System folders, because if I try to open either System Update or System, I get an empty folder instead of the usual menus. This is the case whether I use the "preview and filters" or "classic folder" views.
My computer is running pretty stable right now besides these problems, and pretty much all my programs work normally. It's just these weird, possibly Explorer-related issues that I have described here that are bothering me.
I have Norton Internet Security and it has detected nothing. I don't download anything from, nor do I browse suspicious websites or pay any attention to suspicious e-mails, so I do not believe a virus is to blame... although it could be a possibility.
Worthy of note: I recently partially compressed and then decompressed C:/ in a temporary effort to save hard drive space.
I'm going to reboot and run checkdisk. Otherwise, I may be out of ideas besides possibly running MemTest to see if the RAM is funky.
Any help or suggestions on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: CheckDisk said drive is clean. Not sure what to do now.
Recently I've ran into some strange issues on my laptop. At first it was just some blue screens which I get randomly about once a week. Besides the occasional crash, nothing was out of the ordinary. Last night, however, I got two BSOD's in a row, one right after the other. First one occurred randomly, second one occurred when the desktop was loading. Afterwards, the system ran fine albeit with strange symptoms now.
This morning I had a blue screen again upon desktop loading after a reboot, and I noticed that the stop code was 0x0000007E (this is all that I remember, I don't remember where to check for logs for this information). But now, here are the very strange issues that persisted since last night:
1.) Start menu is screwed up: My Photos, Documents, and Music folders are labeled with what looks like registry keys (i.e., it will display "{FDD3842-[...]83}" instead of "Documents"), and clicking on them does nothing, as if they are dead links that lead to nowhere. The Start Menu remains open in this case. My "user" folder on the top will open an empty folder for about a tenth of a second before it closes automatically. The start menu disappears normally, as if I clicked on an operational folder in this case. The Games folder and every other folder beneath it works properly. There are the *only* problems I have observed with my Start Menu.
2.) Left-side pane on explorer folders is missing. When I open any folder, the usual "preview and filters" pane that shows up on the left is now gone. There is no menu bar below the title bar unless I switch to "Windows classic folder" view. I'm not sure if what controls this interface also controls the System Update and Control Panel->System folders, because if I try to open either System Update or System, I get an empty folder instead of the usual menus. This is the case whether I use the "preview and filters" or "classic folder" views.
My computer is running pretty stable right now besides these problems, and pretty much all my programs work normally. It's just these weird, possibly Explorer-related issues that I have described here that are bothering me.
I have Norton Internet Security and it has detected nothing. I don't download anything from, nor do I browse suspicious websites or pay any attention to suspicious e-mails, so I do not believe a virus is to blame... although it could be a possibility.
Worthy of note: I recently partially compressed and then decompressed C:/ in a temporary effort to save hard drive space.
I'm going to reboot and run checkdisk. Otherwise, I may be out of ideas besides possibly running MemTest to see if the RAM is funky.
Any help or suggestions on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: CheckDisk said drive is clean. Not sure what to do now.
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