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Name: MJ-x85x
Date: October 10, 2008 at 15:04:01 Pacific
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: 2.00 GB
Product: acer
Comment:

hi all

i cant open " My Computer " icon its always saying that there is an error , its driving me crazy and i cant open anything because of it .

plz help

MJ




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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: October 10, 2008 at 15:14:13 Pacific
Reply:

Have you done the basics?

update and run your antivirus
update and run your antispyware
run chkdsk /r
run disk cleanup
run defrag

are there other icons that don't work?
if you go off the start menu to my computer does it also not work?
EXACTLY what is the error?


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: October 10, 2008 at 16:39:39 Pacific
Reply:

What error are you getting? Can you open Windows explorer?

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 3
Name: MJ-x85x
Date: October 12, 2008 at 12:09:17 Pacific
Reply:

first i want to thank both of you

when i double click on my computer icon a new window appear and its says that theres an error on it and they ask me to choose to send the error or to close the my computer window , that is my proplem

thanks again

MJ


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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: October 12, 2008 at 15:13:07 Pacific
Reply:

So I ask again; what error are you getting? Can you open Windows Explorer?

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 5
Name: KirstyN
Date: October 13, 2008 at 16:37:18 Pacific
Reply:

Yeah, it'd help to know what the error is saying, unless it's just the typical Illegal Operation and forced closure.

I'm guess that you've got some bad memory on your machine, and maybe a virus or malware that's preventing it from opening or causing a clash in the system code somewhere.

Can you access My Computer through any other means? From the Start menu? From the run command? If so, it's probably malware clinging to the desktop and forcing problems when things try to open.

Run the basic virus scans and take it from there.

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Response Number 6
Name: MJ-x85x
Date: October 14, 2008 at 08:13:04 Pacific
Reply:

in this link you will be able to see my problem :

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/...

its always apear when the my computer icon is opened .

at the end sorry for bothering :)

MJ


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Response Number 7
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: October 14, 2008 at 15:42:06 Pacific
Reply:

So when you click on the "Click Here" diaglog, what is shown? Does the same thing happen when you run Windows Explorer? Did this error always happen? If not, what happened immediately preceding the problem?

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 8
Name: MJ-x85x
Date: October 17, 2008 at 12:56:47 Pacific
Reply:

you can see the error in the link i show or i should put a new windows ?

i really dont know what to do to end this error .


sorry guys

MJ


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