[SLUG] HELLLLLP !

From: botteman (botteman@knology.net)
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 00:26:21 EDT


OK, guys, I've done it now. Any windoze experts among you?

Netscape 7.2 apparently hung, became non-responsive. So, we
closed it, and the Netscape window was no longer there in the
taskbar, implying that it was closed. The mouse pointer could
be moved all over the desktop but when it was moved over the
taskbar, which was visible, the pointer changed to an hourglass.
I then noticed multiple Netscape icons in the tray, even though
we thought the program was closed. Ctrl-Alt-Del brought up the
task manager which indicated no instance of Netscape running in
the Applications tab, but I did notice a Netscape entry in the
Processes tab. I selected it and clicked End Process. XP then
was busy for a while, trying I suspect to get rid of the icons in
the tray. After some time waiting, without success, I brought up
the TaskManager window again and clicked Shutdown from the
File Menu. That's when I foobared it.

Now the moron keeps rebooting over and over again. I get a
very quick (1/2 second) blue screen and at some point in the
reboot I see and click OK on a message window indicating that
Windoze had to replace part of the registry with a file somewhere.

Pressing F8 on boot, and selecting last known good boot, safe
mode, debug mode, or any other of the options does not help.

My question is this: Can boot off the XP install CD and re-install
without mucking up all my non-OS files?

Or can you suggest a better way to get this pos working again?

(Please don't tell me to install Linux. It's my sweety's machine
and all her work files are on it.)

Dave
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