I had earlier posted about how the computer is not listening to me. Well, programs would freeze, web sites won't open, processes won't get killed.
I thought I would remove some of the unnecessary programs. Uninstall did not work. I brought another antivirus McCafe this time and tried installing it. That won't get installed.
Now is the time to take stern actions, because any ways,this system is all screwed up. There is not much to lose I thought. I started exploring the hard disks and deleting all the files I did not like - either the names or the descriptions or the dates of creation.
Not much damage happened. Computer was still working. That gave me courage. I went to registry editor. After saving the current registry setting I tried modifying registry entries. Again, not much problem. But there was no benefit either. I had all the above mentioned problems.
I got bolder. I plunged into windows/system32 folder and started removing the dll files. Now the magic began. I would delete a dll file. And lo, it will reappear again. This kept repeating for any dll file in this folder. But I was not amused. I had decided I want to correct the pc (or spoil it completely??). I went into safe mode - for those who are also in adventurous mood, you can go to safe mode by pressing F8 during booting. So in safe mode, I deleted many dll, exe files from system32 folder. And as I saw many nls files and did not know what they are, I deleted some of them as well. Who knows which file is the culprit?
And now my system won't boot. Mission accomplished.!!
I don't know how much money needs to be shelled out to buy another xp cd.
I thought I would remove some of the unnecessary programs. Uninstall did not work. I brought another antivirus McCafe this time and tried installing it. That won't get installed.
Now is the time to take stern actions, because any ways,this system is all screwed up. There is not much to lose I thought. I started exploring the hard disks and deleting all the files I did not like - either the names or the descriptions or the dates of creation.
Not much damage happened. Computer was still working. That gave me courage. I went to registry editor. After saving the current registry setting I tried modifying registry entries. Again, not much problem. But there was no benefit either. I had all the above mentioned problems.
I got bolder. I plunged into windows/system32 folder and started removing the dll files. Now the magic began. I would delete a dll file. And lo, it will reappear again. This kept repeating for any dll file in this folder. But I was not amused. I had decided I want to correct the pc (or spoil it completely??). I went into safe mode - for those who are also in adventurous mood, you can go to safe mode by pressing F8 during booting. So in safe mode, I deleted many dll, exe files from system32 folder. And as I saw many nls files and did not know what they are, I deleted some of them as well. Who knows which file is the culprit?
And now my system won't boot. Mission accomplished.!!
I don't know how much money needs to be shelled out to buy another xp cd.
I think your system has something outdated in it and troubling you for so long. And also while deleting the files you might have deleted the important boot files. Good luck with your system anyway.
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