Half of my \Windows folder is gone....

Janis

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Mods - I don't even know where to put this (although I've looked for similar posts, sites, wikis, you name it, I haven't seen it).

My touch screen doesn't work, I don't have a start menu that has anything in in except "Today." The rest is blank. It didn't disapear right away, either. My touch screen worked after one soft reset, and I still had the expected display of the start menu, but none of it worked. Somewhere in the middle of all that my .tsk changed to the default. After another reset, I am here:

  • No Start Menu (Today option only)
  • Default .tsk
  • No links from Ultimatelaunch to startmenu links work, but links to Programs themselves do (in Program Files)
  • No CommMgr via hdwe key, but my wifi was on when this all started, and keeps restarting, without recognizing my network (I just re-entered my WEP key)
  • the joystick works, and the keys do things, but the camera and CommMger keys can't find thier apps.
  • the joystick won't select my wifi bubble radio button, but otherwise works.
  • AEBPlus stopped working, so I can't get to my MortButtons to launch anything else.
  • Since I don't have a start menu, I don't have a file explorer I can get to (yet I have 3....)
  • Phone works (but only using hdwe keys)
  • I can't do much else (no screen print uless you want me to take a picture of it with my Wiza200)


I'm doing quick copy of my Program Files and App Data foldera to catch all the changes I did today, the rest is synced (but I'll copy what I can) via a Guest partnership, since the name of the device seems to be gone as well.

I was playing with assigning hardware keys, fisrt with AEBPlus, then I switched to Calligrapher's config mgr (I was trying to regain the functionailty of button 3 press&hold, which went away with assigning the other keys with AEBPlus). It was all I did, besides play a few audio files with Vito Audio Notes and Vito Sound Explorer, since my last reboot.

Prior to that I was trying to get my video streaming up & running this way:http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=FlashVideoBundle
, and I installed Vito Metronome (just to see. kind of a waste. KOOK K-met is better, even tiny on VGA), and MccMobile Finder, but had reset a few times to recheck my timing in a Mortscript to bring back my today screen after having MccMobileFinder and Vito Audio Notes launch on start up (niether of which will automatically minimize.)

I had just entered all my reg codes earlier today, and I know there are too many, so this sucks.

Are there any viri (viruses, I guess) that might do this? I mean, yeah, I can spend an hour or two (I'm afraid it might be more, since things go all complicated on me all too quickly) getting back to running, but what the *{^ ( |<* happened?

I hope I'm off my rocker for the moment and no one ever sees this happen to them. Any ideas?
 

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Janis

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Jul 26, 2006
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Minneapolis, MN US
New development: I loaded up, started doing a few things I need to do manually (I like to do my AEBPlus, and have never been successful at imprting Phonealarm setting), and lo, I soft reset, and the boot screen stcuk. The red boot characters went away, but the button lights never turned on.

Can anyone tell me if I should be sending it in to PPCTechs, or might this be a ROM (or software????) issue.

Any input is welcome.
 

boinger66

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something similar happened to me once when i banged my phone on something..

all shortcuts / programs dissappeared...

i only had 2 options in start menu..

did a hard reset and everythign was restored