I think I messed up my computer...

Posting from an internet cafe because I messed up my PC somehow. Please help!

posted by SteveGreene

Need more information!

posted by Cylon_Boy

More info pls!

posted by Bandolier

Sorry guys, my PC won't even boot up, it just gets to the desktop and nothing happens, the icons don't come up or anything.

posted by SteveGreene

Sucks to be you!

posted by Bandolier

Sounds pretty bad. What is your PC?

posted by Cylon_Boy

An older Pavillion tower, I bought it about two years ago. It was working really well until this morning.

posted by SteveGreene

Two years is a long time for a PC to keep working. You should totally restore the system software. Do you still have the box? There's a disc in there for System Restore, just put it in the disc drive and reboot and it will reinstall everything the way it was when you got it.

posted by Cylon_Boy

Good advice except if there is a hardware problem it won't fix it.

posted by Bandolier

True, but it is a good place to start. What's the point of sending it to get fixed if it was some problem with Windows that you could fix just by putting that disc in?

posted by Cylon_Boy

Hey SteveGreene, hope you backed all your files up!

posted by Bandolier

Let us know how you got on, SteveGreene!

posted by Cylon_Boy

once it gets to the desktop hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and a task manager will appear click on the processes tab and highlight Explorer then click end task make sure its not in the process list now hit File>New Task then type explorer, if your desktop icons appear back up all you data and preform a full windows reinstall. if the icons don't reappear restart the computer and hit F8 until you see a windows boot selection screen select safe mode and back up all your data.

posted by jason

take it back to the place you got it from and get them to fix it

posted by James J

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