Hi,
I have Windows xp home edition. A few weeks ago I formatted my hard drive and reloaded windows, just because I think it's a good idea to do now and then to get rid of old registry keys etc
Since then I been noticeing some weird problems.
1 My recyle bin does not hold any deleted files once I shut down and reboot. I'm not talking about a large amount (I mean 1 icon). I see the file in the bin when it first boots up, but once it completely finishes booting it disappears. I spent hrs trying to figure out what was wrong (unlike you guys,my knowledge of computers is very limited) but I give it my best.
I decided it's not a big deal and I would just live with it. I figured maybe something got corrupted and I didn't know where to look, or what I was even looking for.
2. I been podcasting lately and saving them to my desktop. I decided to put one on a cd. The way i did it was to right click on it from my desktop and (send to cd) When the file was transfered I clicked on d: drive to make sure it was on the cd. When I clicked on it it shut down my computer and then 'puter started up again. No error message. I thought I did something wrong so this time I right clicked on cd and choose open, same thing happened. The reason I telling you all this is because I'm wondering if it's connected to my recycle bin problem and the problem I have with the cd shutting down the 'puter is connected i.e. corrupted file or seperate issues?
I really don't want to reformat to fix problems (unless I have to so much work all over again.) I did try to do a repair, but when a pressed "r" it took me to recovery console and I didn't know what to do there.
FYI I have Zone Alarm, AVG anti-virus, Spybot, keep all updated and have checked all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
I have Windows xp home edition. A few weeks ago I formatted my hard drive and reloaded windows, just because I think it's a good idea to do now and then to get rid of old registry keys etc
Since then I been noticeing some weird problems.
1 My recyle bin does not hold any deleted files once I shut down and reboot. I'm not talking about a large amount (I mean 1 icon). I see the file in the bin when it first boots up, but once it completely finishes booting it disappears. I spent hrs trying to figure out what was wrong (unlike you guys,my knowledge of computers is very limited) but I give it my best.
I decided it's not a big deal and I would just live with it. I figured maybe something got corrupted and I didn't know where to look, or what I was even looking for.
2. I been podcasting lately and saving them to my desktop. I decided to put one on a cd. The way i did it was to right click on it from my desktop and (send to cd) When the file was transfered I clicked on d: drive to make sure it was on the cd. When I clicked on it it shut down my computer and then 'puter started up again. No error message. I thought I did something wrong so this time I right clicked on cd and choose open, same thing happened. The reason I telling you all this is because I'm wondering if it's connected to my recycle bin problem and the problem I have with the cd shutting down the 'puter is connected i.e. corrupted file or seperate issues?
I really don't want to reformat to fix problems (unless I have to so much work all over again.) I did try to do a repair, but when a pressed "r" it took me to recovery console and I didn't know what to do there.
FYI I have Zone Alarm, AVG anti-virus, Spybot, keep all updated and have checked all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.