Re: HELP!!! My computer is totally broken

What kinda disk did u get with your dell? If you got a win or restore disk
try runing them. Well don't try running the restore disk just yet, but u
could try running the win disk in repair mode.


"Lulu Edwards" <Lulu Edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:720209D4-B8B9-47AB-8114-45F97C45AD60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am desperate, can someone please help me? My computer is broken, so
broken
that I can't even get System Restore to come up. What I get are error
messages for every program on the start menu that say:

" Windows cannot open this file: File: Calculator.lnk

To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows
can go online to look it up automatically, or you can manually select from
a
list of programs on your computer.

What do you want to do?"

Then it gives the choices of selecting the program from a list or using a
web service to find the appropriate program. I can't even open explorer
except through this backdoor that takes me to CKNOW.COM.

In addition, where the icons used to have little pictures, they now have
the
same drawing for each program of little boxes with colored dots at the
top.

I called Dell for support and they said this is not a hardware issue, so
is
not covered under warranty. They want $99 to give me software support for
three days on this issue, and I do not have that much money right now.

Can someone please help me? I don't even know where to start.




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