[CTS] Re: Question

On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 13:33, Tee wrote:

> There's more...
> 
> My computer continues to act up... it'll boot up, get to the desk top
> (showing desktop picture and icons) and then it takes *forever* to even
> play the sign on wav, then another 2 minutes for all of my stuff to become
> available for me to even use.  Including my modem and virus software.
> 
> I went to help and was going to create a restore point and that is when I
> found even more  problems... 
> 
> 1.  No restore points available.. 
> 2.  Year in the restore screen said 2099 
> 3.  Looked at my system tray clock and it said 7089 (!!! WOW !!!)
> 
> So I *finally* got the date to change back to 2003 on my system tray clock
> and rebooted, went into the Bios and the date and time are correct in
> there.  When the computer came back up, (still very slow) I went to the
> restore point screen again and it says: "There are currently no restore
> points available" and it won't let me click on any other date nor will it
> allow me to back up to the previous month.. it's just like it never
> existed.  My system restore is set to create restore points.
> 
> One other thing.. after my computer has been up and running for a few
> minutes, I get a script error.  It has to do with my Starband Modem (I
> don't have the exact script error in front of me, so I can't quote it
> verbatim.. I'll relay it if it happens again).  But basically, it says the
> standard "an error has occurred with the script on this page, do you want
> to continue running this script.." (or close to that), the area where the
> script error is happening, then gives me a yes or no choice.  I've chosen
> "yes".. but I'm not sure what it really means.
> 
> Thoughts?

Are you sure you do not have a virus?

See this about missing restore points,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.co
m:80/support/kb/articles/q301/2/24.asp&NoWebContent=1

Not sure it applies to you however.

Have you got a recent backup you can use to restore system?

-- 
Dennis

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