Recent content by LucidDev

Thank you guys, I was able to get the computer to stay active long enough to reboot into safe mode and uninstalled all software installed in the last 3 days. This seems to have fixed the problem, and seeing as all of it was that PC Optimizer/Registry Cleaner scareware rubbish I'm pretty sure...

It was a hard shutdown, even though the tiles load now, doing anything on the desktop makes it freeze, and going back to the tiles and re-launching the desktop does nothing, just stays at the tiles. Are there any recovery disks out there that are targeted at Windows 8 that I can at least do a...

Attempting to load anything locks up the desktop, going back to the tiles and then clicking on Desktop (or anything that would pull up the desktop) does nothing. Is there a way to view them on the boot screen? Edit: I /finally/ got the Event Viewer to open up without the desktop freezing, and...

For some reason, it decided to magically work. I decided to restart it /one more time/ to be prudent, and it loaded without problems. I have no idea what I did, but if anyone has thoughts about what happened or what triggered this please let me know in case this happens again Edit: It loaded...

My brother said his computer was lagging to he shut off his computer, and when he turned it back on, nothing would load; I turned the computer on and it logs into the user but none of the tiles will load. It takes me straight to a black screen with a bar at the bottom, and after about 45 seconds...