Do you really want to fight these kinds of problems one at a time? My guess
is you need to bite the bullet and do a complete reinstall before you waste
a lot more time.
"Keith Russell" <1s3l-> wrote in message
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> Hi, all.
>
> My laptop recently crashed and refused to boot. I ran a repair from an
> installation DVD and that made the machine bootable again. However, I
> then began to discover strange things going on. For example, I was
> getting frequent error messages saying that it was unable to write to
> the temp folder. Thanks to Mick Murphy and Flavius for helping me to
> solve that one. It was a permissions problem: c:\windows\temp was set to
> read only. When I cleared that, the problem was solved.
>
> I have now discovered that I am unable to change Folder Options. I'm
> going crazy not being able to see the file extensions, but if I uncheck
> the box for "Hide extensions for known file types" and click on OK, it
> does nothing--and if I go back into Folder Options, I find that it's
> checked again. Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Suspecting that
> this might be a permissions problem as well, I removed the read-only
> attribute from the Windows folder and all its subfolders (except for
> those files and folders it wouldn't let me change). It didn't help, and
> now I'm thinking that might not have been a good idea.
>
> One other thing (I suspect this is related):
>
> The left side of my Start Menu is completely empty: no pinned programs,
> no recently used programs. I am unable to pin anything there. Only when
> I type in the search box do I get anything displayed. Ideas?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> --
> Keith Russell
>
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