posten in general hardware but thought id get a better responce here. mod please delete the one in general hardware thanks.
so i got civ 4 today for birthday and tried to install it. after i installed it before restarting i updated DAP (that download accelerator plus thing). i restarted and tried to play it and my comp froze. i restarted and tried it again but this time before it froze i ended the process. after that i downloaded McAfee because my university requires it. i scaned the comp and no virii came up. a little bit after the scan my comp randomly restarted. when igot back into windows half of the things i have set to run at startup dont. when i click on some files it says i need a cd in my drive. even for apps like spybot S&D. i can open IE but when i do, before the page loads, i get a thing sayen microsoft office needs to initalize. it starts to initalize and stops halfway through saying there isnt enough space (it says i have 0kb free). when i put a disk in the drive my apps will work. (i get a message saying its not the correct disk but when i close it it works) whe there is no disk in the drive it wont let me open certain apps. WHAT IS GOING ON. this is a vary confusing problem.
short version
-comp restarted on its own
-half of apps set to run at start dont
-M$ office tries to "initalize" at startup and every time i open a new IE window but cant
-some apps say i need a cd in the drive to run (like AdAware) others run fine
-when i put any cd in the apps that need it work
-no virii detected and spyware cleaned
UPDATE
-now i get a little message when trying to open itunes
"Unhandled Exception Error Number: 0x80040707 Description: Dll function call crashed: ISRT.VerGetFileVersion Setup will now terminate"
-windows restore (didnt think of that for a while) seemed to fix it but what the hell went wrong? and how can i prevent it from happening again?
so i got civ 4 today for birthday and tried to install it. after i installed it before restarting i updated DAP (that download accelerator plus thing). i restarted and tried to play it and my comp froze. i restarted and tried it again but this time before it froze i ended the process. after that i downloaded McAfee because my university requires it. i scaned the comp and no virii came up. a little bit after the scan my comp randomly restarted. when igot back into windows half of the things i have set to run at startup dont. when i click on some files it says i need a cd in my drive. even for apps like spybot S&D. i can open IE but when i do, before the page loads, i get a thing sayen microsoft office needs to initalize. it starts to initalize and stops halfway through saying there isnt enough space (it says i have 0kb free). when i put a disk in the drive my apps will work. (i get a message saying its not the correct disk but when i close it it works) whe there is no disk in the drive it wont let me open certain apps. WHAT IS GOING ON. this is a vary confusing problem.
short version
-comp restarted on its own
-half of apps set to run at start dont
-M$ office tries to "initalize" at startup and every time i open a new IE window but cant
-some apps say i need a cd in the drive to run (like AdAware) others run fine
-when i put any cd in the apps that need it work
-no virii detected and spyware cleaned
UPDATE
-now i get a little message when trying to open itunes
"Unhandled Exception Error Number: 0x80040707 Description: Dll function call crashed: ISRT.VerGetFileVersion Setup will now terminate"
-windows restore (didnt think of that for a while) seemed to fix it but what the hell went wrong? and how can i prevent it from happening again?
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