I would tell her to save what she can to disc and demand a new hard drive ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tech Rose - LoveBytes" <TechRose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:34 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- H E L P ! I E will not go to a web page - Follow up > Thanks for the info about SP2 and most importantly..the recipe...ha ha! > > She got the machine with SP 2 on it I believe.... it is only a few months > old. > > As a follow up... HP has her do a System Restore. I am not surprised at > that... but I am disappointed. > > She did the restore. And was getting her email back and installing > programs. > She got a message that she had to update java. She went to do that..in > the > midst the machine froze. Then things got worse after she rebooted. She > called HP again and they had her type something in the Start/Run... she > did > not remember what it was. It was taking a very long time. > They told her that was because there were corrupted files in Windows and > it > was repairing them. > > Then, she had trouble trying to get her email accounts to work, but > finally > they did. > > I have a bad feeling about all of this. I am leaning towards a hard drive > failure. Early on, when she was having problems, she said she heard the > hard drive running hard but nothing was happening. > > I have reminded her to do the System recovery disks. If she loses the > hard > drive she has nothing and she will be devastated. I think she has all > her > graphics and data backed up. > > I can only hope she has done the restore. > > Rose > Las Vegas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ange" <locustchewed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:08 AM > Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: H E L P ! I E will not go to a web page > > > I had a similar problem with my PC after installing SP2 ~ by the book ~ > fresh install of Windows, most up to date Firewall and Virus software. In > the end my ISP (Cable) told me to remove SP2 and things went ok from > there. > > BTW I've since installed SP2 without the care and attention of the first > time and it's fine. > > As far as the Southern Comfort thing goes I have a recipe that takes a > bottle of Whisky/Bourbon, 2 big bars of milk chocolate, a tin of condensed > milk, 2 tins of evaporated milk and 2 small tins of sterilised cream. > > You melt the chocolate and gradually whisk in the tinned stuff. Then you > add > the whisky/bourbon and pour the mix into bottles and leave it in the > fridge > for 24 hrs b4 drinking it. (in limited quantities for obvious reasons) It > lasts for months kept in the fridge but most ppl cant keep it that long > without drinking it. > > Hope this helps. > > Have a great Christmas all of you. > Ange > Faith_unlimited > Locustchewed ...under restoration!!¿!! > http://www.geocities.com/locustchewed/outanabout.html > > > > -- > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/