Have you tried to run System Restore? It sounds like some driver conflict or bad install. I would run System Restore back to a date when it worked.
Best of Luck
I recently downloaded digital software for a new camera, after doing so I ran into several error msg's and was unable to download the photo's. I uninstalled the software, this is where my problems began. I lost my earthlink dial up and was forced to call earthlink and re-set the configuration with them, this has been fine, however, my windowsme began prompting me for passwords and showing me what mode I wanted to run in each time I logged on, safe, normal, etc......this hadn't occcured before. I have done several diskscans for errors, telling me errors were found and repaired, I've defraged, cleaned-up, etc.....my issue since the installation/uninstall of the digital software among the others listed is that the picture, background, desktop, web page's etc, have all taken on a distorted look, almost like I made some sort of pattern on everything to do with the viewing of my comp. I have enabled and tried to do a system restore to restore the comp to a time prior to when it become corrupt, however, even after freeing up disk space, this option only went back to January 19th, my problems began Jan.2, 2005. I cannot even manually set this to Jan. 2. My main objective at this time is to at the least, back up all of my files to a disk in my CD RW so I can launch a HP full recovery and return my computer to the state it was when I bought it, unfortunately I'm unsure how to back up my files.
If anyone has any suggestions or how-to for me, I'd greatly appreciate it. I've spent the last 3 weeks, fruitlessly reading HP,and MS sites, using every HELP option available to reverse this problem or at least how-to's on backing up my files. I have purchased floppy disks for start up copying and blank CD's, I just can't figure out anything else.
Thanks again.......riotgrrrl

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