[Kie99]

When I turn my computer on, it works fine until it gets onto the welcome screen.  I click my username and it says "Loading your personal settings" then restarts, I have to keep trying to log in and then, eventually, it works, and the computer tells me The MS Windows has suffered a serious error. Here is a pic of the error message, technical report and information.


MY other problem is that when my computer is working and not spontaneously restarting, on all my other profiles, apart from my main one, when I try to open a folder or Internet Explorer, they both perform illegal operations and need to shut down.

Any ideas?

[Turnsky]

it might be the custom GUI proggie that's screwing everthing up.

[Kie99]

And how would I fix that?

[Sesquipedalian]

Uninstall it.

But a better bet would be to do a System Restore back to the last date when your system still worked fine.

[pyro-manic]

Give it a good clean. Soapy water and plenty of elbow grease...

[Kie99]

OK I'm embarrased to ask this question, but is the GUI the custom theme around the windows?

[pyro-manic]

Windows is a GUI operating system. Stands for Graphical User Interface - as opposed to a command-line interface like DOS or something. But you've changed from the standard Windows interface to Windowblinds or whatever you're running, which could break stuff.

Basically yes, in answer to your question.

[Kie99]

Tried that, it didn't do work.

[StratComm]

The first thing I would do is google all running processes that aren't things you immediately recognize.  If it's spyware, it'll show up in the google search.  Unfortunately it actually sounds like an error in explorer itself (the theme isn't actually part of that) which would imply corruption at the OS level.  If you have no bad processes running and system restore doesn't fix it then you're left with the uninviable task of reinstalling windows.

[achtung]

Whenever I have an error that would be a pain to identify and fix I just reinstall of course I have everything backed up on an external drive so I guess if you don't you might have slight problems.  Personally I would track down those temp files and check em.

[WMCoolmon]

Do a virusscan and run Spybot and Adaware.

[Kie99]

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Do a virusscan and run Spybot and Adaware.

Already tried that about a dozen times.

OK So I restored the system right back to the beginning using the System recovery function that comes on as soon as I turn on my computer, and it said I wouldn't lose any data.  Unfortunately it seems to have cleared out My Documents.

My other problems seem to be solved, but if anyone can help with My Documents (which I don't expect) then please tell me.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me in this thread already.

[Hippo]

I had that happen, but was never able to get it to do ANYTHING, so i had to format... It was almost immediately after another re-format though, so i didn't lose anything... Back up your stuff though, because next time it might be more difficult to fix.

[Taristin]

My PC randomly seems to give me those microsoft errors on windows start. The ones that say that the system has recoverred from a serious error.


It never does, though, unless turning it off is a serious error.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Raa
My PC randomly seems to give me those microsoft errors on windows start. The ones that say that the system has recoverred from a serious error.

I get those too. It's a bit wierd. What I can't work out is what caused it - they seemed to come up without me performing any significant change, and it continues to happen only inconsistently.

[Taristin]

Yes. Although it is becoming more frequent lately. :S

 I may have to witch to the win2k install for a bit and see if that changes anything.

[Grey Wolf]

You checked for heat problems or anything along those lines? Possibly incorrect BIOS settings?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by kietotheworld
My other problems seem to be solved, but if anyone can help with My Documents (which I don't expect) then please tell me.

Run PC File Inspector (or some other file recovery program) and recover the files.

[Kie99]

Thanks, I managed to recover a good few files, and I got some others off the internet.

EDIT:  Just found out MS Office doesn't work because its "Not installed for the current user"  and I don't have the CD.

*goes off to install openoffice*