After wasting 4 hours yesterday, I had the system fall over after a comprehensive scan disk session today. Scan picked up *loads* of errors, and on rebooting, Windows kindly informed me that the security details were invalid and I’d have to reboot in safe mode.
Which I couldn’t do.
The details that got scrambled were mine – i.e. the administrator’s. So now that I’ve got back onto the system (reinstall over the top, seeing as I couldn’t use “Repair” due to the password being lost) I have a load of stuff stuck in locations I can’t get to. Or at least I did until I deleted the now “Unknown” user profile.
You’d not believe the amount of stuff Windows insists on installing in your own profile, when you want it available to all users on a system. Back out with the application installation programs *grr*.
Oh, and to cap that, I can’t download three of the Windows Update fixes which came down the wire without a problem first time round. XFM‘s online radio broadcast won’t work either, though I think that could be something else.
Yeesh.
