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Answer» I am currently trying to re-boot my computer, as a number of applications do not open and also the internet is not working as liked, but i insert the disk and it gives me an error message can someone help please? I am currently trying to re-boot my computerHummmmmmm ..... must have rebooted ok or you wouldnt have been able to get this screen shot of " my computer " You should post some information ....... about your system ....... Quote a number of applications do not openwhich applications won't open ? Quote and also the internet is not working as liked........ What does this mean ? Quote but i insert the disk and it gives me an error message.......... You insert what disk ?............ and into what drive .......? I have a certificate for mindreading 101 , crystal ball polishing (basic and advanced) ....was schooled in the art of the Vulcan mind meld by Spok himself , but I have to tell you , I have no idea what you're talking about . [size=16]Lets have some details ![/size] dl65 That is the most vague post of the day! An award will be given. LOL ..... It's sure in the running . dl65 I am trying to reboot my computer, ok, i have the disk to reboot it, i insert the disk into the drive, ok, then when nothing happens on the screen, i open "My computer" and click on the drive "D" it gives me the error message which i posted above... do you understand now, because i really need some help please :-/greekos..... Lets try this again........ Quote I am trying to reboot my computerUsually if you want to reboot , you simply press the start button Quote have the disk to reboot itWhy are you using a disk to start your computer ? Quote i insert the disk into the driveWhat disk are you inserting and which drive are you putting this disk in ? Please try and tell us what operating system is installed on your computer and exactly what it is your trying to achieve? dl65 Ok, i have quite and old computer here are the specs. System: Microsoft Windows XP Proffesional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Computer: Intel Pentium 3 processor 704MHz, 128MB of RAM I'm not sure what else details about my computer you will need, anyway i am trying to reset (reboot) my computer, you know by using a "Windows Xp disk" to unistall everything, do you understand me? because i don't know much about computers. I have never had problems at all with my computer, and every few months i delete everything and start again...(if you understand me) Thanks for the help so far, sorry i am not to clever at this..please ask me for more if you need it to help me greekos..... Ok , first let me say that your pc will handle XP , however , you should really add more ram ........ It will run on 128mgs, but very slowly ....... 256 is the minimum that you should have...... 384 or 512 would be better . Now assuming that you have an original win XP cd with S2 and a APPROPRIATE product serial key ( 25 character alpha numberic code ) . Simply go into the bios and set the boot sequence to first boot cd-rom ....save the change and exit . Put the win xp cd in the cd rom and start up the machine ........ then simply follow the instructions on the screen. Once you have xp installed and before going online , install your anti virus ....then go online and visit the MS update site and get all available updates . Oh, yes , don't forget to do ACTIVATE windows XP ....... Hope this helps . dl65 Thank you very much for the help dl65, but when i follow your instructions, it says "failed" when trying to read the XP disk. Have you any more help? :-? Thank you once againgreekos .......Very odd....... Let me ask you something ....... Was this pc working fine before this issue ...or have you just built it or rebuilt it ? when I reread your posts , I get the impression your not telling us the whole story ....... If I have reached the wrong conclusiopn , please let me know . dl65 Hi dl65 This is greekos brother. To answer your QUESTION - we're not entirely sure on what may of affected the drive and other errors we seem to be getting whilst on the computer. However, we did get an unsual error message when logging onto to the normal user which sort of triggered all the problems off after we had saw that. We are recieving the following error when logging onto my user at this home pc. "Limited Virtual Memory - Your system has no paging file or the paging file is too small. To fix this problem, go to system in control panel, click the advanced tab and under performance, click settings on the advanced tab, click change. Click 'custom size' and then type an initial or maximum paging file size." Now, doing as the message says brings us to the following shown in the screenshots; Now, i know the KNOWN rule is to set both the Initial and Maximum sizes to 1.5 times the amount of RAM you have installed in your system. However, i did this and there was no change. So then i changed the setting to "system managed size" and yet again nothing happened. So i decided to leave the error message alone for the time being however it had occured to me that something was wrong and that ALOT of things had now stopped working and failied to operate. When inserting cd's into my drive, they would not load or get reconigsed. My sound had stopped altogther, not playing any audio file whatsoever. We kept getting constant error messages, that meant nothing to us really which would cause either the browser, msn messenger or the whole computer to shut down. Now it has come to my knowledge that the error message above must be the cause of all this as before, none of this was happening whilst we didnt see that error message. IF you could help us on the SITUATION, i would be very grateful now that you know a little more. If you need more info, please ask specifically. Thanks in advance,greekos....... So really all these issues appeared after changes were made to the paging file system ...... How long has it been since windows xp was installed on this machine , and do you have SP2 installed as well as the available critical updates ? Now lets try something ........ lets clear the paging file system ..... To clear the Windows paging file (Pagefile.sys) during the shutdown process and prevent any unsecured data from being contained after the shutdown process is complete. Some third-party programs can temporarily store unencrypted (plain-text) passwords or other sensitive information in memory. Open Control Panel Select Administrative Tools Select Local Security Policy Select Local Policies Click on Security Options In the right hand menu, right click on Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile Select Enable Reboot let us know what effect this has and the answers to to other questions . dl65 To answer your question, we have had windows xp for about 2-3 years. About SP2, i dont know what this im sorry to say lol so i wouldn't know if we had it installed or not.. Anyway, i followed the instructions you gave me however they didnt work to good. This is what i got.. I dont know if they help but thats what i got, im guessing thats not meant to happen greekos.... So what happened when you did this ........ Click on Security Options [highlight]In the right hand menu[/highlight], right click [highlight]on Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile [/highlight]Select Enable Reboot dl65 I enabled it and after i re booted the error message still came up.. |
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