I can't logon to the internet with it anymore. I now get my task bar freezing itself, Program Manager will tell me it's crashed multiple times, and then my whole computer will freeze! In fact, when I tried to post earlier, it froze, and now I'm using a laptop to get on.
The last thing I did was clear out some spyware and try and get this annoying ISearch toolbar to go away, and deleted the various install things that shouldn't be there. I killed the searchbar thing, but also, it seems, the rest of my internet.
Can anyone help me fix this?
And, as a last resort, I'm going to just delete everything on my machine. Everything. Can anyone tell me (just in case) what command that is? I know FORMAT, but I heard there's one stronger, that you can't restore anything from afterwards, and that's what I want.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
My computer is, um...dead.
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My computer is, um...dead.
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Let me guess, you tried to clean off the computer with a non-updated spyware cleaner. This happened to me before. It sounds like you deleted some key Internet Explorer components, which, since IE is stupidly, inextricably tied to the Operating System, completely hosed your box.
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Re: My computer is, um...dead.
Format /q /u Instantly wipes everything on the disc, presto bingo, good as new.Ice wrote:And, as a last resort, I'm going to just delete everything on my machine. Everything. Can anyone tell me (just in case) what command that is? I know FORMAT, but I heard there's one stronger, that you can't restore anything from afterwards, and that's what I want.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
If that's not enough then use Fdisk and kill the partitions, but you better know what you're doing.
Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
It was Spybot S&D, the most updated there is. Tje only physical deletion I did were of various installer programs, except the one ISearch folder (that might've done it...Dalton wrote:Let me guess, you tried to clean off the computer with a non-updated spyware cleaner. This happened to me before. It sounds like you deleted some key Internet Explorer components, which, since IE is stupidly, inextricably tied to the Operating System, completely hosed your box.
). Is there anyway to fix it, or should I just start all over and format/deltree (I think that's the command)?
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Does your spyware remover have an "undo changes" option? If so you could try restoring everything and see if it works, and then go delete things one by one again.
Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
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Don't. Try reinstalling your OS first. You can probably just install it over the old version or do a repair installation without nuking all your files.RogueIce wrote:It was Spybot S&D, the most updated there is. Tje only physical deletion I did were of various installer programs, except the one ISearch folder (that might've done it...Dalton wrote:Let me guess, you tried to clean off the computer with a non-updated spyware cleaner. This happened to me before. It sounds like you deleted some key Internet Explorer components, which, since IE is stupidly, inextricably tied to the Operating System, completely hosed your box.
To Absent Friends
"y = mx + bro" - Surlethe
"You try THAT shit again, kid, and I will mod you. I will
mod you so hard, you'll wish I were Dalton." - Lagmonster
May the way of the Hero lead to the Triforce.
*whew* Thanks for remind me about the reinstalling thing! Got me to remembering, "Wait, I got this from someone else...do I even have a Win98 CD?"Dalton wrote:Don't. Try reinstalling your OS first. You can probably just install it over the old version or do a repair installation without nuking all your files.
Which, it seems, I do not. So, anything I do can't involve reinstalling, unless I can get my hands on a new OS CD (I think one was in here earlier from my dad's work, let's see if I can find it...).
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight