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Odd error after a crash

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JeffWill

Junior Member
I'm having an odd problem after a crash exiting a game.

I was playing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and finished for the day. As I exited the system crashed. No big I think (I've got an intermittant Power Supply issue that causes crashes occasionally), It'll reboot and be fine.

Well, upon reboot I got an error message 'There is a file Program in the f:\ that can potentially casuse problems, renaming it to Program1 will prevent this' So I renamed it.

First thing I noticed after getting all the way in to the OS is the Quick launch bar is gone from my task bar. Second thing I notice is the icons are gone from the Start menu. Third is in any folder display of explorer the folder icons are missing fourth is I no longer have a 'details' view in my folders. and last but not least, I cannot see my menu bar in any open window. it's there, but invisible as is the quicklaunch bar.

System is an AMD 2700+
MSI MB with an nForce Chipset
Video is a GeForce with 256k on board, I forget the exact version ATM
Win XP Home
1GB memory
80 GB primary drive
8GB data drive
a CD RW and a DVD RW

All drivers are kept updated as much as possible.

I've tried rolling back to a previous restore point, three days before the incident with no success. I also tried to reinstall XP over top but it told me the version installed was newer than the one on the disk and it would be a bad idea to try that.

I've also tried changing themes and icon sizes with no result.
 
Kind of sounds like a virus to be honest, but I wouldn't elminate any other possibilities just yet. Run a disk check make sure all the system files are in there respectful locations first, then take it from there. Sometimes crashes will screw up system files, but usually it results in Blue Screens, not weird errors like that.
Anyways I hope that helped somewhat,
-nel
 
Hmmm, one thing I hadn't thought of since I'm pretty careful about where I go on the internet and what I open in my email.

I'll run a complete system scan and see what happens. I've got an AV program, but the virus sigs are a bit out of date so it is a possibility.

{edit}

No dice. Got the virus sigs up to date and did a total system scan. No viruses found.

Any other ideas anyone?

Oh, what Disk Check are you talking about?
 
Isn't there a utility that looks at the base windows files and compares them to what should exist, then replaces anything that's not right from the install .cab files? I seem to recall the existance of such a program, but not much else.
 
OK, I broke down and got a registry cleaner.

It corrected over 700 registry problems, but not the problem I'm having.

I REALLY don't want to re-install the OS.

{edit}

I just had a thought, If I find the explorer file in the cabs and extract that to the windows directory it may correct the problem, as everything seems to be explorer related. Can anyone see a downside to trying this?
 
Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Why not use chkdsk / use the setup disk to repair your installation?
Click to expand...

I tried the setup disk to repair, but it told me that the OS on the disk was newer than the on on the CD, and wouldn't let me procede.

I've run disk cleanup and defrag and got no results, trying chkdsk now. . .

chkdsk recovered one lost file, gonna reboot and see what happens *crosses fingers*

 
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