[mewball]

thats why i tried exttra hard too get my XP JUST before they launched vista and THANK JEBUS!

[DioBrando]

If Cichol wins, he should get Ubuntu and force Nexon with fomor magic to make Mabinogi work on it

[Blackmaged]

Get a friend who can torrent XP burn you an installation disk?

[Pani]

Oh no. D: I'm stuck with Vista too. If it dies I'll be PISSED.

Hope it gets fixed soon, Kitae- I mean, Cichol. ;-;

[Tamino]

Originally Posted by kitaek27

Problem: Too poor. Can't torrent.

XP is very torrentable... it's just also extremely illegal and you have to make sure you never auto update. Just a possibility. xP

Also, the linux ubuntu install is small enough that you could get a friend to download it and burn it on a CD for you... you could probably get Mabi running on Wine if you use ubuntu.

[Unit 00]

Wow... I feel out of place since I voluntarily upgraded to Vista when it came out and have enjoyed it. Kind of like how most of you are using that firefox program for browsing or macintosh computer systems... I suppose I will never understand some people.... But more on focus to the problem:

The eating up memory thing is actually a safety feature, I don't remember how to disable it, but I do know how to get back the space. Run the disk clean-up and makesure you scan all users. Instead of clicking 'OK' at the window that pops up after the scan, click the second tab at the top and you will have two boxes with info and one button each.

You are looking for the box that talks about something along the lines of shadow copies and restore points. Clicking that button should clear up a few gigs of space (When first run on a computer, I have seen space increases from 5-23 gigs). Now, these are all used to help fix your xomputer if you have some issue, so you may not want to kill them if you are paranoid of something horrible happening or whatever, but I will say I am overly cautious of what I do on my laptop and have deleted it without any noticeably side effects other than more space being free.

You will have to do this more than once since your computer will continue to make restore points and shadow copies in an effort to protect your computer unless you find where to turn it off.

As for the BSOD you saw Kitaek/Cichol/Whoever you are today, I have a few suggestions that may or may not help based on whatever your issue really is.

I think it has something to do with your RAM, though actually reading your picture you might be able to diable the shadowing thing I mentioned above if it is the same in the BIOS memory options, which is who knows where, but I will still give what little advice I have.

The reason I think it's your RAM is because it seems like your computer can't find anything wrong with the info on the hard-drive. Since it dies in the middle of scans, this may not work, but it might be worth a shot. You need to download a registry defrag program and try to run it after you install it. If you have somehow just fragmented (well, fragged it to pieces from the looks of it) the memory on your Ram this would fix it - if you want my advice on which program I would use send me a pm and I will give you a link to the site and soe advice with the program they have there - and it is a legal to download program if you are at all worried about that...).

If that doesn't help it might just be a bad memory section on your RAM which means that all you have to do is replace your RAM and it should all fix itself. If it doesn't help, then you will just have more Ram when you get it fixed. And more RAM couldn't really hurt unless you already filled all the slots.

As for launching the task manager, it should be launchable even if explorer.exe dies since Windows finally did something smart and made the processes for the manager more important than running the rest of the interface. On the few occassions I did something to kill explorer.exe, I just hit ctrl+alt+delete which takes you back a screen and you can click to launch the task manager which should bring you back to your desktop with the manager open. Neverhad any issues launcing the manager despite how difficult I try to make it on myself to launch it.

Since it's only a couple months old it should still be under warranty, so I would take it in to be checked out by someone who does tech support for a living. Well, probably back to where you bought it with the reciept if they have a tech department or to call the manufacturer of the computer to see what you should do to pay as little as possible first though. I am curious as to what brand Strawberry is though, if it's Toshiba that is probably your problem since they have had a bumpercrop of issues with Vista. HPs and Compaqs do fairly well with it, and fro what I have heard Dells aren't that bad with it. dunno about them for sure, but I don't like their products.

Hope this helps.

[kitaek27]

People don't like vista because its pretty much a downgrade a the cost of graphics.
It *****s up a crap load of RAM and hard drive space, gives you far less control than before (which is why people who like to have full control over their computers hate it).

Anyways, torrenting XP is out of the question because...
1. I don't have a computer to torrent to.
2. I'm on school campus, they know... they know.
3. Bad previous experiences with torrenting an XP OS.

And Unit 00, that picture isn't from my computer. I just googled it and put it on my thread for extra drama. But yes, the more and more I mess around with my dead computer, the more I feel that its a RAM problem rather than the OS itself.

Ctrl Alt Delete doesn't work, because the computer can't boot up the login window, which is retarded. Before vista, Ctrl Alt Delete would just auto launch the task manager, but now it wants to launch the login window. No thx for that?

My last resort would be to send it in for repairs. I want my computer fixed ASAP.

[Drekkie]

Do you have two sticks of ram? Try running the pc with one and then the other to see if it helps, if you do. Otherwise you can find bootable ram-checking programs which are not 100% reliable but better than nothing.
Here's one that's actually from the dreaded Microsoft:
Microsoft Online Crash Analysis

You may try resetting your bios as well...what does chkdsk tell you when you run the scan? Just no errors found?

[kitaek27]

Originally Posted by Drekkie

Do you have two sticks of ram? Try running the pc with one and then the other to see if it helps, if you do. Otherwise you can find bootable ram-checking programs which are not 100% reliable but better than nothing.
Here's one that's actually from the dreaded Microsoft:
Microsoft Online Crash Analysis

You may try resetting your bios as well...what does chkdsk tell you when you run the scan? Just no errors found?

I am 100% convinced that its a ram problem.
Yes, I have two sticks of ram, so I will actually try this out tonight.

But I'm no good with hardware, so I won't go any further than that. If its not a RAM problem, then off to Dell it goes.

Its funny because I can't run those programs without booting, which I cannot do at the moment. Ironic.

[Drekkie]

Originally Posted by kitaek27

I am 100% convinced that its a ram problem.
Yes, I have two sticks of ram, so I will actually try this out tonight.

But I'm no good with hardware, so I won't go any further than that. If its not a RAM problem, then off to Dell it goes.

Its funny because I can't run those programs without booting, which I cannot do at the moment. Ironic.

I'm not trying to sound condescending here as you probably already know this, but I wanted to point out two things being as you said you're no good with hardware:

1. When you test the machine with one stick of ram at a time tonight, make sure that for both sticks you place it in slot 1, as a machine will not run without ram in slot 1 and with ram in another slot.

2. Make sure your machine and yourself are both grounded, or static electricity may kill your good ram or something else...like your motherboard.