Major problem.

[liambl]

The problem started when I went to play FEAR Combat. The settings were all back to defaults and when I tried to join a game it would fail CD-key verification. Then I tried to reinstall FEAR, got some long error. Then I tried to uninstall it, got an error about access denied. Now I begin to think something is wrong. Then Windows shows the hourglass and sits there with no activity and I can't click anything. I power it off and restart. Boots fine so I go to My Computer, and notice that Shared Documents is now labeled "Documents". I try to open it and get an access denied error. Then Windows half locks up again. Why is it doing this? I have Kaspersky Internet Security and Windows fully updated and wasn't even connected to the internet when this happened. I have tried system restore when the laptop didn't lock up and it failed like it always does on my laptop, it never ever has any success. I have "most" of my data backed up but there is some very important data that I didnt get around to backing up on the hard drive so I would prefer not to have to do a reinstall. This is an Acer Aspire 5602 with XP Pro. This is my worst nightmare as I have an important school assessment due soon. Please help!

[Cricket]

This is a laptop?

Does it run okay if you go into Safe Mode?

Cricket

[liambl]

This is my laptop. Works in safemode but Shared Documents (called Documents still) is still unaccessable, access denied. Just trying System Restore from within fasemode and now its actually taking a while with the System Restore progress dialog, before it would just flash and then just down the system. Maybe my antivirus was stopping the restore? Anyway I hope this restore fixes it. But somehow I think this is related to a lan party I had last weekend where I had shared documents shared across the network, could that cause this?

[liambl]

I did a System Restore and still Documents is access denied. A lot of my programs and games won't run. At least the PC doesn't seem to be crashign now so I can back up my data and reinstall. I attached an image showing how Shared Documents is now Documents and the error message.

EDIT: This is interesting. I see that my Recycle bin has got stuff in it, I open Recycle bin and theres nothing in there. I click restore all items and just get the notifiacion type ding. Next I click Empty and a dialog comes up saying: "Are you sure you want to delete 'WINDOWS'?" Perhaps this is part of my problems, but how do I restore this folder.

[liambl]

Any ideas?

[mickzer]

Some posters found a fix here:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt...lem-you-2.html


mickzer.

[liambl]

Well to remove the WINDOWS in recycle bin all I had to do was empty it, main thing was to make sure I wasn't going to make my system worse by doing that. But I still have the problem with Shared Documents.

EDIT: FIxed it. I just thought I would go to All Users and see about the sharing of Documents. It wasn't set to share. I told it to share and got an error about access denied: cannot setup sharing. I clicked OK and then Documents changed back to Shared Documents and I can now open it and my programs work.