I Really Messed Up!

hi worldwise wish we were close and I could have sent my computer programmer nerd son over to help you. he could fix your problems really quickly as he is just so good at it. hes out of work right now too. to go backin system restore dont you have to go back to where your computer was working just right, then you will be okay.I am glad for you that you finally got eveything bAck in order. me I ALways hAve to yell for my son to come fix my computer.

I've messed up and fixed my computer more times than I care to talk about. half the time, I don't even know what I did or what the issue is .....I just play around until it is all good again. I'm poor enough that I can't afford a professional and stubborn enough not to give up. Eventually I always get it sorted out. I could never do this as a job unless of course they are paying me very well. it is way too frustrating. oh how many times my computer almost got flown out the window. I have a certain amount of self-control...thankfully.

Funny you mention this as my son-in-law did the same thing to their computer. I showed my daughter how to bring up all the pictures so they could be comfortable knowing they weren't all lost. My next advice was to store all the photos on a cd and update as they take more pictures of their baby. I offered to really look at things and try to recover some of their programs but they had a friend who was going to do it today. They were both so happy the pictures weren't gone from the computer forever. Since I'm not a computer whiz, it's best someone else take over the major recovery issues and reinstall what they need.

I have not done anything like that, thank goodness.I would be very frustrated. I am glad you did not permanently lose your pictures.

I recently purchased the new cyberdefender pc cleaner package. Included in this program is a function for Registry cleaning. I can not say that I am dissapointed, as my pc is indeed faster than it was, but it did not solve all of the slowness and near freezes that occur from time to time.

This is the first I am hearing about registry, when I had my gateway computer years ago, I use to do system restore all the time I even went as far as up grading my computer myself, yep I took it apart installed the chip and my pc was upgraded by me, wow was I proud of myself. gateway was my first computer didn't know a thing about them when I made the purchase but after a time I learned and I found system restore to be such a wonderful feature, I also restored the pc back to the company setting a couple of times, I lost everything but hey sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I have a dell desk top, left it at my moms and my sister jacked it up, I believe there is a virus on it, when I turn it on it says I have to reinstall windows, I tried to do it, but when I put the cd in nothing happens, how can you reinstall something if you can't get it to load, maybe someone can help me out I will really appreciate it, my brother told me if I reinstall windows I will lose everything just the thought makes me so angry, is there a way to reinstall with out losing all the wonderful things I have on my pc,anyboby? I am looking at my dell and its just sitting there looking pretty and I can't use it, this really hurts, my daughter is like mom its broke get rid of it, my computer was fine when I left it at my moms, I know my sister is irresponsible but I took a chance I figured it was just sitting there why not hook it up for her, big mistake, when I ask what happened she is like I don't know it just stopped working, well thats because you did something to it, what the hell did you do, what did you download or open up, her attitude about this really pisses me off.

I use my Regestry Cleaner every Night and never have a problem lol but I do not manually mess with the Registry as my Reg Cleaner only repairs or removes what can be without damage I use CCleaner and it is great and works every time What you did is a total manufacture restore which restores to Computer to standard I have done this in the past as I had to and then spent Days to put everything back on lol I now have a Back up Disc so it will not take me that long next time

I learned that the hard way too. I learned never, never, never mess with the registry unless you're completely sure what you're doing.You're lucky you got system restore to work. I've never had much success with that. So, I figure it's the same with many things in my life, don't mess around with things you don't know much about. Like, I don't tinker with my car, I don't decide what stock to invest in, and I don't monkey around with by PC too much....LOL

Oh dear. I've used registry cleaners a lot and all they do is clean up broken links and remove unwanted files. When I have done a system restore it takes everything back to the way it was when I first got my computer...I've had to back everything up onto a disk or cd first. You were lucky to get photos back and I'm unsure how that happened. But if all is well then I am very happy for you.

I'm glad you got everything back to working order again. I hate it when I have computer problems like that. I hate to mess with anything on my computer also because it ends up messing it up even worse.

I guess this must be a PC type thing, as I don't even know what a registry thing is...LOL I had to look it up. We don't have that with Macs and even if we did no way would I mess around with it...

Yes. Mine started due to Javascript and being told to do a restore. Things got pretty messed up. But I learned my lesson and listen to the ones in the know very carefully now days. I hadn't heard of the registry stuff but will certainly take that under advicement. Thanks.

Oh my gosh what a pain. I think that when something goes wrong with your computer it is probably one of the most frustating things. It makes me more frustrated and stressed out than almost anything else. I'm glad you are somewhat back to normal. I've never done a registry cleaning, never even heard of it. I also need to save my pictures on a CD or flash. I keep saying it but haven't done it yet. I really need to put that on a To Do List!