[Haun]

Ok so i was running QuickPwn 22 for my ipod, when suddenly it just freezes. No HD activity, nothing. So i hard restart it. When it comes back up the log in screen says "Preparing your desktop" at that point im guessing that it was just recovering, and being slow. But after 5 minutes, i get slightly confused. But then it opens up. Horaa... what?

My desktop has been reset, with most of the icons still on it.

I reset the icons, reset my screen settings, but now i have a slight problem... my task bar wont unlock, so that i can put it on the top, the quick launch bar keeps comming up when i start up, and some of the Microsoft apps (word, viso) give me the "windows is setting up bla bla bla..." deal

Now... i set a restore point as soon as i booted up, and then did a boot virus scan with Avast, found nothing.

Is there anything i can do to battle the stubborn-ness? \

Any help you can offer would be great.

[spot]

Check to see if you're logging disk hard errors in the System tab of the Event Viewer. If you've got them then the disk is dying.

Otherwise, are you running on battery or do you have disk powersave enabled in the mains power powersave section? Turn off disk powersave in whatever power mode you're using and see if it clears up.

[Haun]

No disk errors and not in that mode. Not sure how that would affect my positioning of the task bar. I'm thinking corrupt file but I'm not sure what file or how to fix it.

[spot]

I was thinking disk timeout but the effect of a corrupt file might be similar.

You could perhaps get a better idea by creating a new user, logging in as that for a while and seeing if it feels less affected.

[Haun]

Weird. It works there. Is the like a user settings file? If I couldntind that it would be a lot easier to transfer to that account.

Or I could see if it was editable and figure out what was wrong. Hmmm

[spot]

You've tied it to the user settings being duff at least - that's a lot better than the installation being screwed.

Try running ccleaner to sort out user registry inconsistencies from http://www.ccleaner.com - who knows, you might get lucky. And it's a pretty and trustworthy utility to have around anyhow.

[Haun]

hmm did that and restarted. Still doesnt work. Im thinking just moving all the files, ect. to the "test" user account, and then deleting the old one.

but i dont know if i should just move documents or the whole user\blabla\ into use\test

[spot]

Just the files and folders, if it were me - I think I mean all of it that's inside "my documents". Once you've deleted the old one I bet you can rename "test" to what the old one was. I can't tell, I'm sat at a linux box at the moment.

[Haun]

Well that took for ever. Trasfered the filed

[Razer]

Wouldn't a system restore been a better option? Just take it back to before the freeze occurred..