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Posted by Bob on March 30, 2008, 5:52 pm
Please log in for more thread options For future reference, you could have chosen a different restore point.
Good for you...on backing up!
> See, i was really hesitant about running system restore because I've heard
> sketchy things from friends about it. I ran it last night and it went back
> to
> the last saved point. When my computer needed to be restarted it would get
> to
> the user log in screen and before I could type anything in it would
> automatically restart again, over and over again without me being able to
> do
> anything, not ever run it in safe mode(that just restart the computer at
> the
> log in screen as well). I ended up completely reinstalling windows
> altogether, which also worked albeit everything was wiped from my HD.
> Luckily
> I had a usb seagate. WORD OF ADVICE: BACK EVERYTHING UP ON A REMOVABLE
> HARD
> DRIVE.
>
> "Bob" wrote:
>
>> Run System Restore (not System Recovery) to a time before the problem
>> began.
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>> *Report back, please*
>> [When responding to posts, please include the post(s) you are replying to
>> so
>> that others may learn and benefit from the issue]
>>
>> [How to ask a question]
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>>
>> >I use my computer on a daily basis for gaming and movies. I sat down
>> >today
>> > and pulled the dvd I was watching yesterday out and put another one in,
>> > but
>> > autoplay didn't work. So I searched for Windows Media Center, no
>> > results.
>> > I
>> > check autoplay settings and where WMC used to be for DVD's is now a
>> > blank
>> > program icon with no words next to it. I tried recovering with the disk
>> > but
>> > it was caught up on compatibility check. Is there anywhere I can go to
>> > to
>> > just get WMC back without having to run recovery?
>>
>>
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