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popowich
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 12:28 PM
I'm not sure what happened, but my Windows Desktop seems to be semi read only. Some applications can save file to it, others can not and I get a permissions or check your disk space error. Any idea what may have happens and how to fix it? Thanks!

-Raymond
Raven
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 03:13 PM
Did it happen before or after you ran a spybot program. Would it fix itself if you did a system restore? :comp26:

I'm not sure what happened, but my Windows Desktop seems to be semi read only. Some applications can save file to it, others can not and I get a permissions or check your disk space error. Any idea what may have happens and how to fix it? Thanks!

-Raymond
popowich
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 03:28 PM
Before. One of the reason I ran it. It seems better now.

25 problems were fixed, but I missed the screen telling me what they were.

:hide:
Raven
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 05:24 PM
Sounds like something I would do. ;)

Before. One of the reason I ran it. It seems better now.

25 problems were fixed, but I missed the screen telling me what they were.

:hide:
popowich
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008, 07:10 PM
Wow, I'm not sure if it's related, but 2 of the XP logins got reset and are acting like they have never been logged in to before. Weird...

-Raymond
Big Dan
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 12:14 AM
Dude I think a safe mode spyware and virus scan is called for. It's very unlikely that a whole users directory tree (C:\Documents And Settings\<username>) got trashed. As a preventative measure I'd run some HD utilities to see if your HD isn't on its way out.
THERESA
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 07:36 AM
Before. One of the reason I ran it. It seems better now.

25 problems were fixed, but I missed the screen telling me what they were.

:hide:

I SAID I WAS SORRY!! I didn't know you wanted to scrutinize it. I won't touch your spybot again!!!!!!!! :p
yukon
Monday, March 24th, 2008, 10:21 AM
also, if you suspect you are really screwed, take a look into Hijack this:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis

it can be a bit overly complex to use, but in the hands of a "professional" (yes I used quotes because we're talking about Ray here. . . ) I haven't seen it fail in effecting a repair on anything short of hardware failure.