This just happened to me
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Uuuugh! I am beat. So I was minding my business a few hours ago, surfing Fakku, when my browser crashed. Not a rare occurance, but not common either. So after it crashes, my Explorer crashes as well. That's still fine, because unlike XP, Vista bounces back from Explorer crashes like an eight year old on cocain. Well, it suddenly starts looping. Explorer crashes, reboots. Crashes, reboots. Here's the thing, I ignored my GUT instinct to NOT shutdown or logoff. My instinct was to push in my power button and shut it down instantly.
... I did not do this, and if I had done so, I might not be in this current predicament. You see, I logged off and the severe error I was having was saved into my registry, therefore the problem remained when I logged back in/rebooted my machine. A system restore did not erradicate the problem, and since I logged off instead of doing a forced shutdown, the option 'last known good settings' was unsucsessful in removing the problem, as the catastrophic error was set into the registry. Sigh. I was forced, after several different tricks/methods, to reinstall my OS and loose ALL of my beloved hentai :cry: Fortionately, I had a lot of it backed up; my files as well. Thing is, I only do full backups every three months, and I was a day or so away from doing it again.
I am so bummed out right now, but I guess I wanted to see if any other Vista users ever had this happen to them, as I am curious. If yo ever do, by some random chance, DO NOT shutdown/logoff by means of your OS, hold in your power button until it shuts off instead. The reason is this, the error I had was saved into registry when I logged off, and is the reason I got the damn error every bootup from that point. The thing is, choosing the 'last known good configuration' [or whatever; the name varies with machine/OS] loads your most recent registry settings BEFORE the error, and if you logoff instead of force a shutdown, this will not help.
It is interesting to note that I did not have the opportunity to logon to another account, so I have no idea if the error was saved into the HKEY_USERS folder as well, or just the HKEY_CURRENT_USERS folder. Well, while depressing, I am such a freak for solving issues that I find this error extremely intriguing, and I welcome any thoughts on what the hell coulda caused it. Anything I did to try to fix the problem was done with the advanced startup options you get when pressing the F8 key before the OS boots up, because while logged on, I couldn't get anything done. The Explorer would crash every five to eight seconds, then reboot. I love the mystery of this. [AT9]
... I did not do this, and if I had done so, I might not be in this current predicament. You see, I logged off and the severe error I was having was saved into my registry, therefore the problem remained when I logged back in/rebooted my machine. A system restore did not erradicate the problem, and since I logged off instead of doing a forced shutdown, the option 'last known good settings' was unsucsessful in removing the problem, as the catastrophic error was set into the registry. Sigh. I was forced, after several different tricks/methods, to reinstall my OS and loose ALL of my beloved hentai :cry: Fortionately, I had a lot of it backed up; my files as well. Thing is, I only do full backups every three months, and I was a day or so away from doing it again.
I am so bummed out right now, but I guess I wanted to see if any other Vista users ever had this happen to them, as I am curious. If yo ever do, by some random chance, DO NOT shutdown/logoff by means of your OS, hold in your power button until it shuts off instead. The reason is this, the error I had was saved into registry when I logged off, and is the reason I got the damn error every bootup from that point. The thing is, choosing the 'last known good configuration' [or whatever; the name varies with machine/OS] loads your most recent registry settings BEFORE the error, and if you logoff instead of force a shutdown, this will not help.
It is interesting to note that I did not have the opportunity to logon to another account, so I have no idea if the error was saved into the HKEY_USERS folder as well, or just the HKEY_CURRENT_USERS folder. Well, while depressing, I am such a freak for solving issues that I find this error extremely intriguing, and I welcome any thoughts on what the hell coulda caused it. Anything I did to try to fix the problem was done with the advanced startup options you get when pressing the F8 key before the OS boots up, because while logged on, I couldn't get anything done. The Explorer would crash every five to eight seconds, then reboot. I love the mystery of this. [AT9]
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You have any anti-virus programs installed at the time.
It highly sounds like a specific trojan I got one time, Luckily I resorted to a bunch of third party apps and it fixed the problem.
However your best bet in preventing future stuff like this, as annoying as it may sound, is to leave User Account Control on.
It highly sounds like a specific trojan I got one time, Luckily I resorted to a bunch of third party apps and it fixed the problem.
However your best bet in preventing future stuff like this, as annoying as it may sound, is to leave User Account Control on.
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Bah, this never happens to me. I have McAfee on my comp, and it kicks ass at stopping things like trojans and the like from even getting onto my comp. It just stonewalls 'em and then calmly notifies me that an attempt to invade my system was blocked. Dead useful, that; dead useful.
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First off, I have never encountered that particular error before.
Anyway, what makes you think it was something that was saved onto the registry that caused the looping problem in the first place?
Sounds to me as though a windows system file was corrupted and was unable to restore itself.
The fact that system restore did no cure it suggest it has nothing to do with the registry as that's what it backups up. More specifically it restores
" * Registry
* Files in the Windows File Protection (Dllcache) folder
* Local user profile
* COM+ and WMI Databases
* IIS Metabase
* Specific file types monitored [4]" Taken from wiki.
The cause are too many especially since none of us knows what exactly you've got installed on your computer or what you are doing with it but also because windows just tend to screw up now and again through bad update installs and a bunch of other stuff (I admit, I don't know what causes most of the screw ups but it happens).
On a final note, have you tried using preinstall environments to copy those hentai onto a DVD/CD/USB? Since your hard drive is undamaged it's perfectly reasonable to assume that it will work for you. If you haven't, keep it in mind next time this happens.
Since I'm rambling on forever anyway, another kindly advice, DON'T SAVE FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP ON YOUR OS PARTITION. save files directly onto your secondary partition.
Anyway, what makes you think it was something that was saved onto the registry that caused the looping problem in the first place?
Sounds to me as though a windows system file was corrupted and was unable to restore itself.
The fact that system restore did no cure it suggest it has nothing to do with the registry as that's what it backups up. More specifically it restores
" * Registry
* Files in the Windows File Protection (Dllcache) folder
* Local user profile
* COM+ and WMI Databases
* IIS Metabase
* Specific file types monitored [4]" Taken from wiki.
The cause are too many especially since none of us knows what exactly you've got installed on your computer or what you are doing with it but also because windows just tend to screw up now and again through bad update installs and a bunch of other stuff (I admit, I don't know what causes most of the screw ups but it happens).
On a final note, have you tried using preinstall environments to copy those hentai onto a DVD/CD/USB? Since your hard drive is undamaged it's perfectly reasonable to assume that it will work for you. If you haven't, keep it in mind next time this happens.
Since I'm rambling on forever anyway, another kindly advice, DON'T SAVE FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP ON YOUR OS PARTITION. save files directly onto your secondary partition.
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External hard drives were invented for Hentai!
LOL
Seriously, I try to only use the internal hard drive (my "C" drive) for system stuff. All anime and movies go to external.
LOL
Seriously, I try to only use the internal hard drive (my "C" drive) for system stuff. All anime and movies go to external.
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cuteycindyhoney wrote...
External hard drives were invented for Hentai! LOL
Seriously, I try to only use the internal hard drive (my "C" drive) for system stuff. All anime and movies go to external.
Wise words indeed, you have to backup the important stuff like your hentai on an external harddrive :)
I am, like wbacyc, very curious about why you seem so sure about the registry being at fault for your problem? Cause that would clearly not be on my top list of things to look at, unless I had a very clear reason to suspect the registry of any wrong doing.
and btw. win XP also restarts explorer if it crashes in XP :)
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I believe now even XP reboots IE if it crashes as it happen to be before. It hard to say what it is, it can be as easy as the IE is trying to autoboot causing an infinite loop to something like a virus.
I run dual boot, so if one of the OS messes up I can just use the other one to see if I can fix it or transfer files over. I also use another HDD for all my saved files.
You can always try to run a CD boot Linux(3rd party app OS) and transfer files over.
I run dual boot, so if one of the OS messes up I can just use the other one to see if I can fix it or transfer files over. I also use another HDD for all my saved files.
You can always try to run a CD boot Linux(3rd party app OS) and transfer files over.
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This kind of happened to me also except it happened when i was first logging on, the log on screen popped up with the password and everything but then when everything is set i log on onto a completely black screen. My first impression was ok the explorer is taking a while to boot then i realized 10 minutes later something was wrong. I rebooted my computer using task manager and the same thing happened again. I then ended explorer.exe through task manager and started it again and it was fixed.
I'm also using a vista on my laptop and was curious to see something similar to occur to you. I never did find out the cause for the error since i have anti-virus running at all times, but this motivated me to buy an 500 gb external hard drive :)
Edit: I just noticed the user who posted this is not here anymore lol :P
I'm also using a vista on my laptop and was curious to see something similar to occur to you. I never did find out the cause for the error since i have anti-virus running at all times, but this motivated me to buy an 500 gb external hard drive :)
Edit: I just noticed the user who posted this is not here anymore lol :P
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alexanderthenine wrote...
Uuuugh! I am beat. [AT9]"I am beaten" would be correct.
Gremlin wrote...
Bah, this never happens to me. I have McAfee on my comp, and it kicks ass at stopping things like trojans and the like from even getting onto my comp. It just stonewalls 'em and then calmly notifies me that an attempt to invade my system was blocked. Dead useful, that; dead useful.McAffee messed up my Computer!
That would've been a dramatic data loss. Fortunately I have a CD that is
bootable so I can acces my files without havin' a confrontation with
the bluescreen.
Try Norton!