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Can not open any Desktop Icons
Suddenly my 4 yr laptop developed a gliche. I think my son
made some upgrade. The problem is that I can not open anything on the desktop or anything in the program files. The desktop programs such as My Computer and other Windows files prompt you to go online (even if you do , they still do not open) Any other programs such as Word, Works or anything else tell me that I have a "script error". I have been running ME quite happily for four years with this laptop. Now all of the sudden this crops up. I strongly suspect that is is something simple I am missing. Yes, I do have Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall. Any sugestions ? |
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Can not open any Desktop Icons
You may have a virus/spyware hijack
download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mark" wrote in message ... Suddenly my 4 yr laptop developed a gliche. I think my son made some upgrade. The problem is that I can not open anything on the desktop or anything in the program files. The desktop programs such as My Computer and other Windows files prompt you to go online (even if you do , they still do not open) Any other programs such as Word, Works or anything else tell me that I have a "script error". I have been running ME quite happily for four years with this laptop. Now all of the sudden this crops up. I strongly suspect that is is something simple I am missing. Yes, I do have Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall. Any sugestions ? |
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