*Hopes this is in the right spot*

First off; Please pardon my spelling and grammer.

Ok, something tells me I'm going to need a lot more help then this help site, but I would like to try to fix this with out paying $100's on a repare guy. :-/

I bleave that this is all my falt because I was trying to fix somthing quickly and wasn't paying full attention. I like doing graphic arts and for a friend I was trying to make a gift image, YET I have known for about two weeks before that my photoSuite just stopped saveing .gif images for some reasion. So I decided to try and uninstall PhotoSuite and then re-install it to see if it would start saving the images then. When I was doing this I skimmed through this part saying that "these programs are/can be used by other programs" and then I thought it said would you like to not dleate them, but it said would you like to deleat them. So more or less I started dleating a bunch of graphics/programs that I needed for other programs. I panicked when I relized this and shutdown my pc with out finishing the un-installing process. (stuped I know) THINKING that when I re-started it up the screen would come up saying "improper shutdown, would you like to run a scann...." and all that. (on my fathers PC it always comes up) I HOPED that the screen would also say "start up with last known WORKING settings" and what not so I could just go to right before I started to un-install. But that dint happen.

Well after being upset that I couldn't re-install or compleatly un-install my PhotoSuite program I just kinda blue it off. Yet it *just now* occured to me that since then I cant seem to install anything on to my pc. (besides for a spyware remover)

Today I was trying to install an (activeX controle ) or something for an online game. The Windows Installer Screen came up fine and all but then it just stopped. So I tryed to canceln it, and its not going past "CANCELING.." (good 15 minuets now)

So I figged I would install a 'recamened update' for my pc, and then re-set the pc. That frose, so I tryed to cancle it, when I did that I got an error message saying that the install server can not be accesed or is not working. I'm thinking the Easiest thing to do would be Reinstall windows,

so i recommend you start backing up data, and since it your fathers machine, just tell him something has gone horridly wrong, and he needs to back up all his data Before it all go's to pot. No need to lie, just don't say what you did.

But in future Don't Turn off your computer in the middle of an install or uninstall,

Also think about this, you were uninstalling a Program you intended to put back on , so don't you think it would put the Common Files it wanted back?You don'y say what operating system your dad is using. IF it's Windows Xp and IF you can boot into safemode (Tapping F8 key when system boots) then go to System Restore and see if you can restore it back to a date prior to the problem.

Alan <><