[help] Windows Must Be Kidding Me!

hello community!!

I dont know what the f*** is happening to my comp agauin.. to the ones that saw a thread i started, know that i had to reinstall windows about 1 or 2 weeks ago... now that everything seems to be going right, at least it SEEMED so.. well i tried to right click remname a file today and hey.. theres no rename in the context menu!!!! i said ok, it prolly needs to be restarted the poor guy has been running for a couple of days non stop... well i restarted... not even the f2 key works to rename anymore! i get the system sound saying illegal or something you know that annoying bong of windows....

Furthermore, i went to my documents and there were 78 shorcuts of different things on it!!!!!!! shorcuts of random files!!!!!!

ANY CLUES?!?!?!?!??!!? ive run a norton scan already with the latest definitions!! ive run adaware too... nothing...

I need help...

Cheers...

EDIT : i jsut realized somehting, this is reeeeeeaaally f***ed up... everytime i double clik on something.. AAAAAAAAAANything... i get a shorcut in my documents...

WTF is going on!?!?!

Seph in trouble

#61370

Format c:\

It works everytime.

#61371

no thank you i did it last week!!!! ive actually done it twice in the last 2 months!!!

#61372

Someone is really messing with your computer. I've never heard of anything like this happening outside of having a virus. Sorry man.

#61377

You might have the my documents and the my recent documents system folders mixed up --- not "you" as in seph... "you" as in your windows installation. Why do I come up with this loony idea? Because that's what the "recent" folder does, keep a bunch of shortcuts (.lnk files) to everything you do ("go paranoia!!!")

I'm not sure what could cause this, but check your paths everywhere you can think of; the path to recent documents should be: "C:\Documents and Settings\[uSERNAME]\Recent".

That's the best I can come up with at the moment. Sorry I can't be of more help.

#61378

man, ok, give it up... WHAT IS YOUR TRICK, do you KNOOOW everything???

That was what was happening GillBates!! Now, more concerning.... WHYYYY WOULLD IT HAPPEN!??!?! it was changed in the registry!!

I dont think anyone is hcking me im behind a firewall!

Anyway.. THANX A LOT as usual you saved me...

Cheers and Keep it up

Seph

#61386

And today.. We obseve the quiet and solitudal life of.. The Windows animal.. It has a curious reaction to any contact. It dies. Suprisingly, even with thousands of Windows dying per hour, they seem to spreed futher and futher. It now holds four-fifths of the world in it's grasp and might result in the extinction of the rival animal: The Apple.

The Windows animal grows in stages, while it is in short contact with humans;

Stage 1: It obeys almost every command given.

Stage 2: It starts to smell and then dribble on the furniture.

Stage 3: It goes blind, deaf, dumb and immobile.

Stage 4: It dies and has to be buried and replaced.

(And on a serious note: Format the drive/partition with Windows on and start again, if this keeps happening make some partitions to store important files (such as themes etc) so you don't have to download/make them again.)

#61391

HAHAHAHAH... man, they should hire you for the OS documentary!

I do have an external HDD (160 gb of space for icons, themes etc) its still a pain in the ass to restore eeeeverything.. reinstall programs, change dlls hehehe then i complain cause this porr idiotinc os crashes and goes nuts..

Cheers

Seph

Riding a windows..

#61394

The multiple shortcut file:

My explanation is that somehow the Shift key is 'stuck'. That's how shortcuts are made (I think ).

You can't rename files:

Its either a virus, or somehow your permissions are set incorrectly. Oh, wait, we're talking about Windows here. Maybe you're a Limited User or some registry hack disabled the ability to rename files.

In any case, dump Windows.

#61399

Originally posted by Taha@Oct 2 2003, 06:39 PM

The multiple shortcut file:

My explanation is that somehow the Shift key is 'stuck'. That's how shortcuts are made (I think ).

You can't rename files:

Its either a virus, or somehow your permissions are set incorrectly. Oh, wait, we're talking about Windows here. Maybe you're a Limited User or some registry hack disabled the ability to rename files.

In any case, dump Windows.

haha when that think they call money stops by at home i will dump wiondows for a pb17, menawhile im stuck... and yeah, the shorcut thing was fixed by Gillbates and the renaming im the administrator in winxp pro... unless tweak xp did somehting funny... i dont see how it happened...

Cheers

Seph

#61401

Originally posted by Seph@Oct 2 2003, 06:30 PM

HAHAHAHAH... man, they should hire you for the OS documentary!

:canadian:

#61403

well, I'm 'glad' it worked out.

By the way, now that you mention Tweak XP, I remembered something. I use(d) Tweak UI, and after applying some changes thru it, it seems it change a few other things too. I think they are Tweak UI defaults or something which override your preset defaults when you apply any change via the software.

#61404

Originally posted by Taha@Oct 2 2003, 06:46 PM

well, I'm 'glad' it worked out.

By the way, now that you mention Tweak XP, I remembered something. I use(d) Tweak UI, and after applying some changes thru it, it seems it change a few other things too. I think they are Tweak UI defaults or something which override your preset defaults when you apply any change via the software.

its Tweak XP, the german prog... not tweak ui, for some reason i cant install tweak ui cause i dont ahve a sp1 OS and the only one i can find is SP!!

BTW taha, are you following me ?!?!?!?!

#61406

It honestly sounds like some one or some program is effing with your registry settings... if I knew where to find delete permissions I'd help ya, but I don't, sorry.

#61407