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Agreed! I think that I had a mild heart attack when my pc wouldn't turn on.

This did the trick! I held the power button for 30 seconds for extra luck. Now the PC is up and running great. Thanks again everyone.

I'm confused. Is the problem CCleaner, or RegistryFix?

It sounds like you have 2 problems here. (1) Windows is not recognizing CD/DVD's in the drive, and (2) Administrator Permissions has been corrupted. (1) Do you have any yellow question marks in device manager? Have you uninstalled, and reinstalled your CD Drive in device manager (note: must reboot pc after uninstall). (2) To fix Admin Permissions, and policies...download and run DAF. For instructions on how to use DAF to repair your permissions please read here.

I frequently reset CMOS settings to clear BIOS passwords , but the settings have nothing to do with this particular problem. Either the CMOS battery itself is dead & needs replacing, or the mobo died. Oh! And maybe a BIOS flash would help too. I'm a worried that the mobo got fried because when I opened the case my wireless card looked like it had done a nose dive into it's slot, and it was difficult to remove. Not sure what happened there...

That's correct, 15% of free space is needed to defrag a hard drive. But it seems that hotdoge3 is in need of a new, and larger hard drive more than a defrag.

I'd just like to add a few things about regseeker. Regseeker is a good program, but is not good for novices for a few reasons. Regseeker is a vigorous cleaner, and if you let it clean everything that finds you will have trouble. The program has an exception section for users to manually input program information to ignore. There used to be a thread with Andavari's exclusion file to download...should still be around here somewhere. He's really the expert on this program. Definitely not a safe program if you don't know to use it. IMHO that was probably the culprit to the pc freezing. Too many missing registry files.

If you're looking for freeware you could try this. "Easy PDF to Text Converter (http://www.pdf-to-html-word.com/pdf-to-text/) can export the text contents from a PDF document into a Text document. It is a standalone program and does not require Adobe Acrobat, or Acrobat Reader to be installed. And it can convert batches of PDF files to Text files with high speed and good quality." Once it's a text document just press Ctrl+A to select the entire document, then copy/paste into word. If you want to pay some money just do a search on softpedia.com, and you'll get a lot of great options. Hope that helps.

The boot disks shouldn't work if I can't get pass the BIOS. And the battery is the 2nd thing on my list of things to try. I am going to try powering it on without the battery and no drives hooked up, if Andavari's suggestion doesn't do the trick. I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow. Thanks again for all of your help. Have a Great Day!

Would the version of Java matter? I don't see how the runtime environment would affect graphics, but it's the only remaining option that I can think of. Maybe Event Viewer could shed more light on the matter.

What is saying it's full? The screenshot you posted shows 1.79GB of free space. Later it said 7GB of what?

Never thought of calling Tech Support for my PC! LOL I always come here. I will definitely try that if some other suggestions don't work. Thanks everyone.

You could check this out. http://forums.ferra.ru/index.php?act=Attac...e=post&id=2 But in my opinion it would make more sense to spend the money to add CD-ROM functionality, you'll more than likely need it again. Or, you can use it once then sell it on ebay (or return it to store...shhhh...I didn't say that).

If there isn't an option within the gui to add to startup then the program needs to be reinstalled.

I agree. It would make sense for that feature to be included when the analyze function is used.

Two things come to mind. First, make refresh rate 60, and next go to video card manufacturers website to check for driver updates. Remember to follow the driver installation instructions very carefully, or things could get worse.

Thanks, and that is a great idea. Do you know how I can get pass the bios into safe mode? When I power on the pc all that shows up is a screen that says "Intel Bios=F2". Yet when I press F2 nothing happens. So strange!

Hey All, The strangest thing happened to me today. I wanted to test an old Linksys external wireless adapter, and hooked it up to my pc. I installed the driver then when it connected to the network my pc froze...task manager wouldn't even pop up so I shut the pc down using the power button. I waiting 20 seconds and turned it back on, and the same thing happened so I shut it down again via the power button. Now it won't boot at all! It starts up, but I can't even get to the bios. Any thoughts? Maybe flash the bios? So strange. Thanks, K

Bonjour, et accueillir. CCleaner d?sinstalle F-Secure? Je l'essaierai, et voir que je trouve. Je ne parle pas le fran?ais si ceci sera difficile de discuter avec vous. Quelle version de CCleaner utilisez-vous? Parler l'anglais parce que je ne comprends pas quel orange doit-il fait avec F-Secure?

LOL, Very True!

Which programs are you trying to disable using msconfig? Also, do you use Zone Alarm?

Yeah, that's covered in Hazelnut's link. Overall it is good practice to any program's uninstaller to uninstall a program. I'm just lazy, and by default uninstall using add/remove. Admittedly a bad habit LOL.

I've never seen anything like it. It's really neat! I wonder if it's comfy.... Definitely an original style. I would love the new Harley Night Rider, but it's really pricey. http://www.mcnews.com.au/Wallpaper/HarleyD...rod_special.jpg But soooo Sexy!

I actually had the same problem recently. I uninstalled it from Add/Remove Programs, but still couldn't install new version. I used CCleaner to show my program list, and it was showing in that list but not in Add/Remove Programs anymore so I uninstalled again using CCleaner. Then the new version installed perfect. I'm going to keep the troubleshooting link handy for any future problems just in case.

Ahhh...the family. Hope all is good on the home front. We kind of lucked out because we couldn't afford a new bike at the time being a month after the wedding. But! Someone hit my husband on his old bike, and after insurance paid for repairs the bike shop let us trade it in for the full amount that he paid for it 2 years prior! Couldn't pass that up. LOL I was tired of being a passenger on a croch rocket. Now that I've contributed to taking this thread even further off topic I'll hit you up on IM.