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    Angry system hanging, sometimes showing no icons on startup

    I have a Toshiba Satellite , win7 X64,home premium, factory windows version.

    When I tried to start up it went into my user account but with no icons.
    I then shut down power, restarted in safe mode, which was ok.
    I restarted and went into another user account. That one had the icons.
    If I switched users and went back into the original account, I had the icons, but when I tried to start an application
    I got a box that said "The application is not responding, choices were, continue processing or cancel.
    If I clicked cancel, I got an opaque screen showing the icons beneath but I could not click on anything.
    If I clicked on continue processing I just got an hour glass and couldn't do anything.

    I'm running chkdsk/r now.
    Any ideas?
    Last edited by travistee; January 8th, 2013 at 07:24 PM.

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    It's a newish Toshiba so the harddrive is suspect right off the bat. I would find out who actually made the drive and get their diagnostic software and check it from a boot cd. If it's actually a toshiba/fujitsu here you go.
    http://storage.toshiba.com/storage-s...ware-utilities
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    I would also suspect a borked profile. Set up a new profile in Safe Mode, and copy your data from the original non-working profile there ( My Documents, Favorites, etc. ) and then delete that profile. Reboot, and see if the new profile works reliably. Good luck!
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    You might try using System Restore to restore your computer's system files to an earlier date when everything was working correctly. It's a way to undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal files, such as e-mail, documents, or photos.
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    Can you go through this checklist?

    1. Did you install any new software in the week before the issue?
    2. Do you have any Antivirus? If so what brand/version?
    3. What 3rd party utilities do you have? (Examples: Registry Cleaners, System Optimizers, etc)
    4. Have you done an anti-malware scan? What program did you use?
    5. Are you the only person who uses the profile in question?
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    I tried my acronis restore but it failed to read the archive.

    Now i want to restore from the factory partition on the drive.

    I cant get to the screen to recover the system because its trying to
    Do a repair and keeps restarting the system. I cant cancel it.
    just does it again on start. F8 is supposed to bring up the safe
    Menu with the restore choices but i cant get there.

    Its toshiba c655d s5234

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    You have the options of recovering your system
    using the Hard Drive Recovery partition to the
    factory-set default, or recovering just your C: drive
    and leaving other partitions (for example, a D: drive)
    intact, or changing the size of your C: drive and then
    recovering it.
    To recover your hard disk drive using the utilities
    stored on your computer’s HDD:
    1 Make sure the computer is turned off.
    2 Press and hold the 0 (zero) key on your keyboard
    while powering on the computer. When the
    computer powers on, the TOSHIBA HDD
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