Well, I turned it off and it says that the system is not complete and to run
setup again. Tried it again with same problem. Should I use the recovery
disks I made when I bought the computer? It is OEM and I did not get any
windows cd w/it. Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks.

"Gail" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was having problems with my computer and tried to do a system restore. It
> ended up telling me that it couldn’t restore it and no changes would be made.
> I shut down computer and when I turned it on the next day, the icons were
> huge on the desktop and I couldn’t access anything. There was no taskbar and
> when I did a ctrl alt delete the task mgr came up very large and I was not
> able to shut the computer down. I turned it off was going to try safe mode
> but could not access it. Nothing happened when I hit F8 key so finally
> decided to do a system recovery hitting the F10 key. I was aware that I
> would go back to factory computer settings and would have do a lot of updates
> and installs. It went through the process and welcomed me, etc. and then
> went to Windows XP Home screen and said to wait. So I waited and waited and
> I am still waiting. It doesn’t leave that screen. The hourglass will move
> if I move the mouse, but otherwise, nothing is happening. I am afraid to
> turn it off.
>
> Can anyone help, please?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>