All I did was just turn it on.......

I woke up turned my computer on then logged on. I noticed that my wallpaper was black and my vista theme was now the old windows 2000 theme and when I pressed on the start button, there were no default programs listed. Its like my computer restarted itself. I cant get My Computer, My network places, etc on my desktop. All my settings has changed and I dont know what went wrong. My schedule for my computer usage is just to leave it on in the morning until I go to bed and thats all I have been doing and I didnt change anything recently. Why would this start out of nowhere. How can I fix it. All I did was just turn it on.......
Huh?maybe your hdd failed?is it running in safe mode?All I did was just turn it on.......
Sounds like Vista killed itself, which has happened to me, it updated itself at night and I'm assuming corrupted itself during the process and I had a similar symptons as yours, It was as if Vista took a gun to itself and blew its registry wide open. Only option I had was complete reinstall
[QUOTE=''GP1mil'']Sounds like Vista killed itself, which has happened to me, it updated itself at night and I'm assuming corrupted itself during the process and I had a similar symptons as yours, It was as if Vista took a gun to itself and blew its registry wide open. Only option I had was complete reinstall[/QUOTE]Vista sucks so bad it comited suicide??????
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The lethal shutdown The day before yesterday, I pressed the Shutdown button expecting a prompt (something you can configure in XP). Vista neatly closed the few applications that were running, logged me out and shut down, nice and easy. Imagine my surprise when I booted it up tonight only to see a Windows 2000-****''flat'' user interface with everything I installed missing, no glass, nothing. Somehow I got downgraded to a non-privileged user, unable to even see anything in the Control Panel. To add insult to injury, every ''zone'' in IE 7 became locked. I was locked out and not given any options to do anything about it. This is where I said enough. Big thanks to the author(s) of VistaBootPRO who made it very easy to get rid of Vista from the dual boot.[/Quote] [url]http://aspnetresources.com/blog/vista_sucks.aspx[/url].
Wait this is something similar that happened to me with XP... Did you perhaps mess around with the MSCONFIG command at all? I remember I went into MSCONFIG to turn off unnecessary startup programs and i accidently clicked ''Diagnostics Startup'' which did exactly what you say yours did.. Hmm check it out. Click Start, type in MSCONFIG and it under the General tab make sure either Normal Startup or Selective Startup is selected, and not diagnostics.. Hope it helps
[QUOTE=''BlackStalker'']Wait this is something similar that happened to me with XP... Did you perhaps mess around with the MSCONFIG command at all? I remember I went into MSCONFIG to turn off unnecessary startup programs and i accidently clicked ''Diagnostics Startup'' which did exactly what you say yours did.. Hmm check it out. Click Start, type in MSCONFIG and it under the General tab make sure either Normal Startup or Selective Startup is selected, and not diagnostics.. Hope it helps[/QUOTE]



No but I fixed it. My profile has been damaged somehow, I remember a virus was in my computer for a day because of my cousin downloading patches and with my symantec off, but I did delete it and its safe now. What I really did was create another profile and just dragged my files into that profile and deleted my previous profile and its fixed now.