Help.... system hang when trying to save as....

Nottiboi · Post by **Nottiboi** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:36 pm

Hi all....

I was trying to save some word document and when i click save as and pool down the address bar to save in, my system hanged.......

I have tried reintstalling office and Internet explorer.... none helped.... any other suggestion or solutions???

Thanks in advanced.....

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:44 pm

Do you have a CD in any drive? if the cd is scratched or dirty explorer will hang when polling it for info such as opening 'my computer' or using a file drop down in the save as dialogf

Nottiboi · Post by **Nottiboi** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:12 am

Joe wrote:Do you have a CD in any drive? if the cd is scratched or dirty explorer will hang when polling it for info such as opening 'my computer' or using a file drop down in the save as dialogf

Thks for responding..... But there was no cd in any drive.......

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:29 am

Nottiboi wrote:Thks for responding..... But there was no cd in any drive.......

floppy drive as well.. I would might try windows repair, from command prompt.. sfc /scannow for all sys files or sfc Filename.EXE (ie EXPLORE.EXE)

Nottiboi · Post by **Nottiboi** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:29 am

Joe wrote:floppy drive as well.. I would might try windows repair, from command prompt.. sfc /scannow for all sys files or sfc Filename.EXE (ie EXPLORE.EXE)

How do u do that.... care to elaborate more?????

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:19 am

Start, run, then type in SFC /scannow
SFC is the system file checker, SFC /? to see all the commands.
SFC /scannow will scan all you windows system files and look for missing or damaged files. When it finds one it will replace it with a good copy from your windows CD.
If that doesn't work then boot from your windows CD and do a repair. Don't take the first repair option, that will lead you to the recovery console. Follow the install menu along like you are going to install windows. You will end up a screen that says a previous install of windows has been detected. One of the options will be to repair it.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:54 pm

The Dude wrote:Start, run, then type in SFC /scannow
SFC is the system file checker, SFC /? to see all the commands.
SFC /scannow will scan all you windows system files and look for missing or damaged files. When it finds one it will replace it with a good copy from your windows CD.
If that doesn't work then boot from your windows CD and do a repair. Don't take the first repair option, that will lead you to the recovery console. Follow the install menu along like you are going to install windows. You will end up a screen that says a previous install of windows has been detected. One of the options will be to repair it.

thank you

The Dude · Post by **The Dude** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:48 am

Bored + large double double and knowing the answer = hijacked thread.

Sorry.