[HangFire]

Compy is messed.

I was downloading something and playing a game, as I usually am. When I quit the game, I noticed my downloading program has froze. Not uncommon.

When I tried to close it, I noticed it couldn't be clicked at all, usually I can force close it.

Then I noticed the only thing I could do was to change window focus, aside from that, everything had froze. No big deal, I thought. I cut power and restarted.

Then when it was about to load my profile in windows, it spazzed out some error saying something to the effect of "Could not load default profile, may be corrupted. Consult administrator". It then after I hit OK it gives me another one saying its loading a temporary new profile, that will be erased on shutdown.


Then on login it gives some other error, but after looking it up, its something that Windows always does with a brand new profile. Not the cause of the problem.


Anyways, I made a new profile, thinking the restart farked up my profile. No good, all new profiles have the same problem.

So.. my XP box is now failing to load user profiles. The PC works, but after each restart its like having to re-setup a new PC every time. Desktop settings, startup, browser settings, every is defaulted each time.


I'm looking now for a solution, I'd like to fix this without a format. I don't have a XP disk, and I'd have to go on an 2 hour drive if I want to get mine.

I'll update this if I can fix it myself, but please anybody try and suggest something.



I've looked into the possibility of a virus, but nothings come up so far. I might pick through my firewall log to see if some script kiddie was playing with things.