Computer Won't Shut Down

Published on April 3, 2006 By PoSmedley In Personal Computing

I don't know what is happening. First..Photoshop started getting a little buggy. Then when I went to shut down the computer, it wouldn't. It wouldn't restart or shutdown, so I manually shut it down. When I rebooted i got this message instead of my logon screen...
parse error ';' at line 173

I had to click on it a few times to get to logon and when I did, it was WindowsXP's regular logon.

I tried to do a system restore, but again, it will not shut down or restart.

Comments (Page 3)

aimzzz

on Apr 06, 2006

I'm trying it out right now. It sure takes a lot of time to run. I wonder how often it's necessary to use it. (I left it on the default setting of 3 passes & am trying the 3 block sizes of small, normal & big).

Well, you can see I haven't exactly shut down as much software as possible, as I am sitting here online...

PoSmedley

on Apr 06, 2006

I did a full recovery. Reformatted the drive and everything. Whatever had been going on was just spreading into everything. Thanks for all the help though, to everyone. I love this site.

aimzzz

on Apr 06, 2006

I love this site

Just don't give it your diseases

PoSmedley

on Apr 06, 2006

Just don't give it your diseases

I let it slide when you bashed Tony Orlando...but now you're getting personal. I'm gonna have to add a dragonfly swatter to my Troll thumping club.

scorpNZ

on Apr 07, 2006

The only thing left to do is invest in a 2nd hdd and using a ghost utility make a copy of your primary hdd, i use ghost 2003 ,nothing better than making a balls up and having a backup hdd to put things right again in under 1 hr > (to copy 100 GB of Data )

, the spare hdd can be smaller so long as the data does'nt exceed it's overall capacity , you'll find this site useful , if the link don't work just google for radified forums , http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi

Kevin_C

on Apr 07, 2006

I'm not tech savvy enough to explain why some AV proggies scan deleted files, but I do know that the OS cannot completely remove them from the drive, even after reformatting

Who knows, maybe I'll check out this Sure Delete and see what it finds on my PC.

Now, as far as Norton is concerned chances are she has the Norton Recycle Bin app installed on her computer which does keep copies of deleted files around even after you delete them from the Recycle bin. Also, when re-installing an OS if you choose the quick format option for your partition then you really are only overwriting the FAT table on the partition which does leave the actual data on your drive. After that the only thing that will really get rid of the file is if some or all of the file parts are overwritten by new data, which on a really large HDD could take some time. I'm guessing that what Sure Delete does is what's called a destructive delete, in which is overwrites all of the data with either garbage data or 1's and 0's to ensure that nothing can come back and read the previous data. OK, well I'm off to find Sure Delete and see what it's all about.

starkers

on Apr 07, 2006

Now, as far as Norton is concerned chances are she has the Norton Recycle Bin app installed on her computer which does keep copies of deleted files around even after you delete them from the Recycle bin. Also, when re-installing an OS if you choose the quick format option for your partition then you really are only overwriting the FAT table on the partition which does leave the actual data on your drive

As for my sister's machine, she does not have the Norton recyle app enabled because she had problems with it earlier on in the piece, so I don't think it's that. As for the quick reformat option, I've always use the full reformat option because it makes for a better clean install, yet the old data remained because an OS cannot completely erase a HDD. I guess that's why govt and others selling their machines use proggies like Sure delete to ensure their data is unrecoverable. I don't know how it removes old data or how it works, I just know that it did what I required of it.

I'm trying it out right now. It sure takes a lot of time to run.

aimzzz.....sometimes, if there is alot of old data, Sure Delete will take a bit longer to run as it will go back and forth during each pass to erase more efficiently. However, on drives where you can move your files to say your OS partition, reformat prior to running Sure Delete, it seems to run faster that way. Once complete you can return your files to their original position. Then, when all the other partitions are done, you clean the OS drive, which can take longer than the others as it would have contained all that additional data and cannot be refomatted without rewriting Windows. It may seem like alot of time and effort, but it's worth it as frees up resources for a more efficient PC. As for how often, well every 2 or 3 months should be adequate unless you do alot of deleting/file moving/rewriting, etc.

DarKNova2k9

on Apr 08, 2006

If your wondering what Win32.Backdoor.CiaDoor is I know exactly what it is ive used it in the past, its a hacking tool that can be used for all sorts of things including file transfer, desktop viewing, password stealing and users of the program can even watch you through your web cam, the program itself is called CIA Cruel Intentionz and was made by the hacker Alchemist, although CIA itself no longer exist many people may still have the program used to connect to victims, and many people may not even know that they are infected as Alchemist used to sell undetectable versions of the program, Alchemist looks to have gone underground and all CIA website have been done for some months now.

PoSmedley

on Apr 08, 2006

Okay. I have done a complete reformat and all that. Everything was fine. Until today. I think I 'may' have narrowed things down a bit, but I am not sure, so I'm posting.

There are no viruses or adware, my system, to the best of my knowledge is clean with a fresh install of everything.

There are 2 wb skins that are the only ones that bring up these 'parse errors'.

With Joseph's Live I get.."Parse error ';' at line 173". This occurs when I boot while running ONLY that skin. (so far)

With Evgen's ClearOne v1 and v2 I get..."Parse error '<' at line 1". This occurs when I try to open my control panel with just this skin, so far.
I've tried about 8 other skins to test this and so far these 2 are the only ones giving me these Parse Errors.

I recently upgraded my memory and video card. Here is the WB info..
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(COMPAQ FS7600 Color Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Wblind.dll 2006/03/21 13:33:46
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 12:58:22
Wbconfig.exe 2006/03/19 14:33:44
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:12
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

Is this a 'skin' problem, 'wb problem', or is it my PC?

seldomseen

on Apr 08, 2006

Thanks for the thread, Po', and everyone. Some really impressive input. #28, JK, I will try some of this asap on my 2 borked PCs. What a community!

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