Dirty_South Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Whenever I start my laptop , I get an error - winlogon.exe has encountered a problem and needs to b closed and my laptop restarts automatically.... What shud I do ???:confused_smile: ...btw it has XP pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bongosamaj Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Whenever I start my laptop , I get an error - winlogon.exe has encountered a problem and needs to b closed and my laptop restarts automatically.... What shud I do ???:confused_smile: ...btw it has XP pro. What you should do is get ubuntu and get rid of Winblowz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 What you should do is get ubuntu and get rid of Winblowz. I am certainly looking to do that. What is required to load Ubuntu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_South Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Guyz please don't hijack this thread !!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Guyz please don't hijack this thread !!! :D Yeah sure. BB is on right track though. Some process is restarting your machine. Most likely a spyware. Try disconnecting from Internet and start in Safe mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aditi Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Whenever I start my laptop , I get an error - winlogon.exe has encountered a problem and needs to b closed and my laptop restarts automatically.... What shud I do ???:confused_smile: ...btw it has XP pro. I'm having a similar problem with my laptop...It's a Dell Inspiron 1405 with Windows XP Pro....Everytime I shut down the explorer.exe file crashes and errors out and stalls the shutdown process until I kill it. Argh!! Time to rm -rf Windows!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Whenever I start my laptop , I get an error - winlogon.exe has encountered a problem and needs to b closed and my laptop restarts automatically.... What shud I do ???:confused_smile: ...btw it has XP pro. Try restarting in safe mode. Then install spybot search and destroy, AdAware, CCleaner....AVG or Avast anti virus software. Run them all and hopefully that will fix it. If safe mode does not let you in either then mabye you need to nuke your OS....reinstall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bongosamaj Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I am certainly looking to do that. What is required to load Ubuntu? Nothing, really. Download it, burn it as ISO on a disk and then plug & play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_South Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Try restarting in safe mode. Then install spybot search and destroy' date=' AdAware, CCleaner....AVG or Avast anti virus software. Run them all and hopefully that will fix it. If safe mode does not let you in either then mabye you need to nuke your OS....reinstall [/quote'] Safemode with Networking is working gr8! Rite now I'm using my laptop. Installed Kaspersky anti virus and performing a full system scan. BTW , had similar prob wid my other laptop and gave it to a shop , he made a complete mess by deleting some imp files ! Its almost 3.30 AM now and I'm not gonna sleep till this prob is solved :two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 ^^ Kaspersky is good. Slows down the machine but effective. And do listen to Bongo and go uBuntu way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Safemode with Networking is working gr8! Rite now I'm using my laptop. Installed Kaspersky anti virus and performing a full system scan. BTW , had similar prob wid my other laptop and gave it to a shop , he made a complete mess by deleting some imp files ! Its almost 3.30 AM now and I'm not gonna sleep till this prob is solved :two_thumbs_up: Yes but run those three other softwares as well. :eyedance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Blue are you not an IT guy? :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_South Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Blue are you not an IT guy? :hysterical: Arey yaar I am an IT guy :D ....Network engineer....:two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaurav Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Arey yaar I am an IT guy :D ....Network engineer....:two_thumbs_up: Sala kaisa IT guy hai re tu? :haha: Won't let you anywhere near my network :hysterical::D I will definitely recommend you to my competitors though :hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_South Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 Sala kaisa IT guy hai re tu? :haha: Won't let you anywhere near my network :hysterical::D I will definitely recommend you to my competitors though :hysterical: jyaada baat mat kar be ... i'll hack ur n/w !! :finger: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator_05 Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I have a question or two for all you computer nerds. A friend of mine has this crazy problem with hard disk space. I have been looking at her laptop for a while now, and this problem confounds me completely - i have never seen anything like it. OK, this is the problem. She has two drives in her laptop - a 12 GB drive (C drive) and a 21 GB drive (E drive). She has completely run out of space on the C drive - well, almost. She only has about 10 MB worth of space left on that drive - Windows has suspended system restore, and some applications just don't work. She has used every option that was available to her - disk defrag, compressing every single file, shifting her entire my documents folder from C to E along with several other files which were taking up space. None of these actions solve her C drive problem, because the moment she starts to browse the internet all the new temp files/cookies get downloaded into that C drive and the space just keeps getting reduced over and over again - back to the drawing board and all that. My questions are; 1) is there any way she can move that temp file from C to E, or just make the E drive the "main" disk drive ?...2) If she buys an external hard-drive, would the computer be able to read it ? I ask because whenever she sticks one of her USBs in there, it doesn't read. I think the C drive needs a certain amount of space to read insertion of external hardware. Any suggestions or possible solutions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bongosamaj Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I have a question or two for all you computer nerds. A friend of mine has this crazy problem with hard disk space. I have been looking at her laptop for a while now, and this problem confounds me completely - i have never seen anything like it. OK, this is the problem. She has two drives in her laptop - a 12 GB drive (C drive) and a 21 GB drive (E drive). She has completely run out of space on the C drive - well, almost. She only has about 10 MB worth of space left on that drive - Windows has suspended system restore, and some applications just don't work. She has used every option that was available to her - disk defrag, compressing every single file, shifting her entire my documents folder from C to E along with several other files which were taking up space. None of these actions solve her C drive problem, because the moment she starts to browse the internet all the new temp files/cookies get downloaded into that C drive and the space just keeps getting reduced over and over again - back to the drawing board and all that. My questions are; 1) is there any way she can move that temp file from C to E, or just make the E drive the "main" disk drive ?...2) If she buys an external hard-drive, would the computer be able to read it ? I ask because whenever she sticks one of her USBs in there, it doesn't read. I think the C drive needs a certain amount of space to read insertion of external hardware. Any suggestions or possible solutions? Preferrably, do it this way: 1.Back-up the data (shouldn't be that hard- if she doesnt have a DVDR, get her to send her files to someone else's computer on msn transfer- will take a day or two at most but nothing that overnight transfers wont solve). 2. Re-install windows and use its partition manager to partition the 12 Gb drive into 3 partitions : 1 6Gb partitions, 1 5 Gb partition and the last bit being 1 Gb partition. Use one of the 6Gb partition to be Windows home drive. 3. Reformat the 21Gb drive and designate it as media folder with NTFS file system. 4. Install ubuntu ( fairly easy- download it, then burn it as ISO on disk) and install ubuntu in the 2nd 6Gb partition ( 5Gb one). When ubuntu installs, it will ask you to pick the type of format you want for its home drive, pick JFS, since Ubuntu loves JFS paritition. 5. Format the 1 Gb one as JFS too and leave it as your JFS RAM overflow drive. 6. Problem solved. This will solve the problem you are quoting, 100.00% garantee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dial_100 Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Also try to uninstall all the known softwares as losing them wont be a problem, Like Yahoo, MSN, Google, Messagers, toolbars, WMP, RealPlayer etc etc. create some space. And only use C:drive to install some OS files rest should go on exter disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap_Brannigan Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 My laptop constantly overheats esp when i am running big programs.It wasn't like that when a year back. Any idea whats wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 One of your cooling fans might have plonked.. check that out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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