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by hpharley90 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:34 pm
Hi, I haven't been here in a while....Been playing a lot of guitar and recording music.......but I have a computer issue...I'm still using XP Pro....I just went to open Add/Remove Programs to uninstall some software and it will not open. I rebooted PC twice. I click Control Panel then "Add/Remove Programs" and window says "Please wait while the list is being populated" but nothing happens.....I have seen that many times in the past and I wait a few seconds and all my programs appear. But now I waited 30 minutes and nothing happens a couple of times...any thoughts?
The PC runs fast in my opinion with one issue......Lately I get an error telling me Windows Explorer must close for a reason I can't remember at this moment,when I have multiple explorer windows open.
Not having my "Add/Remove Programs" able to populate the list does not indicate that my PC is running good!
Also it is not a virus or malware....I get no pop ups or banners or what not........everything has been and still is very good as far as those issues.... nothing ever detected or a warning of..........
Thanks Richard
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by John 'twosheds' McDonald » Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:09 am
This could be a 'red herring' but, at one time, I was experiencing problems with Explorer (and also my USB were dying one at a time). In the end I tried a repair install of Windows and that solved the problems.
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by hpharley90 » Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:34 pm
John 'twosheds' McDonald wrote:This could be a 'red herring' but, at one time, I was experiencing problems with Explorer (and also my USB were dying one at a time). In the end I tried a repair install of Windows and that solved the problems.
John doing a repair would keep me from losing all my software is that correct? I want to stay away from the clean install....The repair might be the way..
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by hpharley90 » Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:35 pm
I will do that on the next start up....
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by John 'twosheds' McDonald » Wed Dec 17, 2014 1:34 am
hpharley90 wrote:John doing a repair would keep me from losing all my software is that correct?...The repair might be the way..
Yes, everything on the C: drive should remain intact when doing the repair but, for belt and braces security, I would clone the disc first, just in case.
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by hpharley90 » Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:11 am
John 'twosheds' McDonald wrote:This could be a 'red herring' but, at one time, I was experiencing problems with Explorer (and also my USB were dying one at a time). In the end I tried a repair install of Windows and that solved the problems.
Unfortunately for me I don't have that option (which I just recently found out) on my DELL disc that came with computer to do a repair.... It will just do a clean install...in the past I have probably done a clean install 5 or 6 times...I don't remember over the years...... And I go through this every time because I don't remember if it does a repair or not......and it is time for a clean install once again.......
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by John 'twosheds' McDonald » Mon Jan 05, 2015 1:39 am
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