Recent content by robertpri007

Many thanks. That will be my next step. The square plastic edge popped off easily enough except for the top where the web cam is located. I hesitated putting too much force as it seemed to be near breaking. I saw some videos on how to pop it off, but it is really attached firmly. I've also read...

Many thanks--it's a start. Ran ShellExView and there are 257 files. Where to start, eh? My knee jerk reaction is to trust MS stuff. Well, for now. That leaves about 100. Then look at just "context menu" That reduces it to "non-MS context menu" lines to about 40 or so--hard to count them...

This is not a show stopper because I have learned the work-arounds, but it's highly annoying. I often have 3,4,5 sessions of File Explore open at once. [old habit] I can use the keyboard to copy/paste, etc with no problem. But if I use the right mouse click to "copy" or check Properties, or...

Thanks. I didn't know it was coming from Hong Kong until submitting all the data and reading the shipping details. But I have already bought another replacement laptop, so the wait is no problem. I don't need two so will try to sell this one when fixed.

On a brightness scale of 0-10, my Asus laptop is a .5 I can only see it with room lights off. A friend told me it might be the display inverter so I ordered one. However, it will take a month from Hong Kong. Does this sound like the right approach? Or is there something else that could cause this?

I finally booted to my backup drive, formatted the primary, and then copied from the backup to the primary. Rebooted, and after some minor updates since the last backup, all is well. I have no idea what happened, but thanks all for the great information.

Thanks. I make a dynamic file/file backkup to two other hard drives every week, so I have a perfect source. [a bit obsessive about backups] I tried to copy/paste, but of course ran into that highly annoying "you don't have permission" thing. Finally solved that, and will try later, but I'm...

I am just tagging onto this thread because I am stumped. Short story version: I have corrupte files that CHKDSK and SCANNOW will "see" but not fix. One file is autochk.exe I make two dynamic backups to other drives, meaning I have a source for the file. But when I try to copy paste, it...

One more really odd thing. I said this horror story began when trying to install Windows Live. As I try to open some files, like my voice activated Word program, the message says: "(that voice program).exe is corrupt and unreadable IN THE FOLDER C:\PF\CF\MS Shared\Windows Live. I know my...

That was the first thing I did [recalling my XP days] It creates a CBS which I opened in notepad. [after some work] It said that it corrected most of the errors, but not all, and created the cbs.log 99% okay, but here are the errors which I don't understand Cannot repair member file...

Many thanks, but it does the same thing. Open elevated CMD type chkdsk /r enter it comes back to say it must be done on reboot Y/N? I type Y enter reboot goe straight to windows splash screen and says there are corrupt files--run chkdsk I also cannot use restore to any earlier date because...

I made the huge mistake of adding/installing Windows Live. Since then, nothing but errors and problems and I cannot UNstall Windows LIve [it won't let me, even in safemode] nor can I open the Windows LIve folder. [folder is corrupt and unreadable] Several error msgs tell me to run CHKDSK, so I...