I am not sure what happened in June 2008 to our computer but it stopped
having most of the windows functions. We do not have paint,calculator,volume
control,and many other things. To top it off whenever we put a cd rom in the
drive it will not run it on the computer because it doesnt recognize the
drive. There is only a c drive now and it is driving me nuts here. A friend
tried system restore multiple times and we located the date the problem
occured but the system will not restore we get a message stating that it
cannot be restored to the earlier date. Any ideas? Yes I have the Cd Rom that
came with the computer however I cannot restore from Cd Rom if the computer
will not recognize it.

"BrandonAj_18" <BrandonAj18@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am not sure what happened in June 2008 to our computer but it stopped
> having most of the windows functions. We do not have
paint,calculator,volume
> control,and many other things. To top it off whenever we put a cd rom in
the
> drive it will not run it on the computer because it doesnt recognize the
> drive. There is only a c drive now and it is driving me nuts here. A
friend
> tried system restore multiple times and we located the date the problem
> occured but the system will not restore we get a message stating that it
> cannot be restored to the earlier date. Any ideas? Yes I have the Cd Rom
that
> came with the computer however I cannot restore from Cd Rom if the
computer
> will not recognize it.



You need to determine if it's simply that Windows does not recognize the cd
ROM
or if it's just plain defective.

Check the bios and see if it's recognized...
if so set the boot order to boot fist from cd rom.

now reboot and see if you can boot from the cdrom...
if so, you can perform a repair installation


NOTE: Be sure to backup all your data before you do anything else

"BrandonAj_18" <BrandonAj18@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4068C4B-BC3B-4D29-8FE3-3473B2FD77FE@microsoft.com...
>I am not sure what happened in June 2008 to our computer but it stopped
> having most of the windows functions. We do not have
> paint,calculator,volume
> control,and many other things. To top it off whenever we put a cd rom in
> the
> drive it will not run it on the computer because it doesnt recognize the
> drive. There is only a c drive now and it is driving me nuts here. A
> friend
> tried system restore multiple times and we located the date the problem
> occured but the system will not restore we get a message stating that it
> cannot be restored to the earlier date. Any ideas? Yes I have the Cd Rom
> that
> came with the computer however I cannot restore from Cd Rom if the
> computer
> will not recognize it.

Sounds like it's slowly shutting you down because Genuine Advantage says
it's an invalid system.

Galen

--
emm


"Galen Somerville" wrote:

>
> "BrandonAj_18" <BrandonAj18@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F4068C4B-BC3B-4D29-8FE3-3473B2FD77FE@microsoft.com...
> >I am not sure what happened in June 2008 to our computer but it stopped
> > having most of the windows functions. We do not have
> > paint,calculator,volume
> > control,and many other things. To top it off whenever we put a cd rom in
> > the
> > drive it will not run it on the computer because it doesnt recognize the
> > drive. There is only a c drive now and it is driving me nuts here. A
> > friend
> > tried system restore multiple times and we located the date the problem
> > occured but the system will not restore we get a message stating that it
> > cannot be restored to the earlier date. Any ideas? Yes I have the Cd Rom
> > that
> > came with the computer however I cannot restore from Cd Rom if the
> > computer
> > will not recognize it.
>
> Sounds like it's slowly shutting you down because Genuine Advantage says
> it's an invalid system.
>
> Galen
>
>
> --Hi, I am new at this forum. But, listen, have you downloaded the SP3 pkg lately? When I did that, the same thing that you mention happened to me. I couldn't even go in the internet, and my Device Manager was all empty. I went to Add/Remove in Control Panel, and removed the SP3 pkg. Then, I went to Start, Search, wrote down SP3 and removed all the remaining files too. Then I called Gateway (my computer is a Gateway). We tried few things, and this is what worked for me: I went to Start, Run, Msconfig, Services. In services there are choices "Disable all" or "Enable ALL". Mine were all disabled, I clicked "Enable All" and that fixed my problem. I hope this can help you.