Recent content by fixer4162

I have half a dozen or more programs in the Start Menu whose icons are either greyed out and their folders are "empty". I tried reinstalling them, going to programs and right-clicking "Repair", running Unhide.exe and a program to rebuild the Windows Icon Cache, nothing has helped. I have...

I've had the computer for >1 year and I didn't get extended coverage so I don't think it's under warranty anymore. Having said that the laptop is working again, booting up again normally and everything. It didn't make any strange noises, or show any errors, I did boot into Safe Mode and run the...

My hp dv3t has been giving a message about checking a disk for consistency every time I reboot(ed) for about a week now, but today it froze after the countdown reaches zero (for bypassing the procedure)…nothing I do can get it past this step. What do I do? I tried booting from Safe Mode, it...

I have this exact same problem and tried to do what you said (booted from safe mode, then entered chkdsk /r) however I get a very brief message window (it disappears in under a second) telling me I do not have sufficient privileges to perform this operation.