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I had that happen to me a long while ago. After having that happen to me and drivers getting corrupted and causing windows not to load at all - I finally discovered how dual booting can be an advantage. I now have an install of mandrake on this machine and if anything goes wrong in windows, I can boot to mandrake, mount the windows disk and do what I need to do. Works well I might add...

Stink Sleeve,
I may have a fix for your folder naming problem. I've had the same thing myself. This is a little screwy for a fix, but it may work. Download cuteftp, install, then in the window on the left (your computer), navigate to your desktop. Then rename the file. You should be able to delete it now.

I had to do this with an .htaccess file and it worked just fine.

CTB,
If your network admins were smart they would just give you a linux box. I haven't seen anyone that crashes a windows computer like you can. I'm still not sure how you do it

Usually I just push the ON button

My boss is on his 3rd PC in about 6 months. I take down OSes, he takes down whole damn computers

Well my work PC crashes about 3 times a day, but thats cause I work it really hard, normally have about 20 programs running. Doesnt normally like it.

Thanks for the tip thedude but unfortunately it didn't work. Oh well.

Stink Sleeve - Well, sorry I thought it would work. About the only other suggestion I have is to put the harddrive into another computer as a slave drive, boot up and see if you can delete it that way.

As for you guys that crash your computers:

a.koepke - Yours makes a little more sense, 20 programs would crash any OS without throwing a lot of hardware at it.

CTB - You crack me up, but I still don't understand how you do it. Normally, I have most of the following programs open at one time - Photoshop 6, phpdev (apache, mysql, php), Netobjects Fusion, Editplus, FTP voyager, Outlook, and IE (several windows). Sometimes I throw Mozilla into the works as well. I can count on one hand the number of times my computer has crashed since I put XP pro on it. Sometimes it will slow down a little, but no crash.

AMD Athlon 850
256 PC133
40gb 7200rpm Western Digital
32mb ddr elsa geoforce 3
gigabyte mobo

Heh... well, I'm on NT Workstation SP5 so that could have something to do with it. It's not that Windoze tends to crash, really - it's more like all of the disparate Microsoft apps that I have running tend to take each other out. A typical environment for me is

Frontpage
at least 1 IE window
Outlook
Access (that's a killer)
Multi-Edit
RealJukebox

Occasionally I also throw in Nero and Click n' Design 3d (CD label maker) just for fun.

Still, that's nothing compared to my RH8 box at one time:

Firebird
PostgreSQL
MySQL
2+ Mozilla windows
Evolution
Open Office Writer
Gnome
gFTP
emacs (ouch..)
Bluefish
Apache (5 children)
xmms
Nautilus

Of course, there's a big difference between the two systems:

Work: Celeron 733, 256 MB (?? MHz memory), integrated 8MB shared graphics, slow-*** HDD

Home: P3 866, 512 /133Mhz, 32 MB nVidia M64, 1 40GB 7200RPM drive (mounted on /mnt/media as my CD collection) and 1 20GB 7200RPM drive (/ mount - work drive).

What can I say? I just connect to Linux / BSD better than to Windoze... something about me that Microsoft must not like.. hmmm... I wonder what it could be

Ahh, the IT dept went el cheapo on processor and videocard eh? I'm beginning to see the problem with your work computer. Integrated video shares your system ram, and that can cause problems, and a celeron cpu has very little cache. These wouldn't happen to be HP computers would they?

It sounds like your IT dept just bought mass computers and didn't consider how hard each user would use their box. Power users (programmers, graphic artists, etc.) get a souped up box, while secretary's get the type you got.

Typical

That's exactly what happened - and they're actually Compaqs (no, Compaqs... from before Compaq was HP) which is just as bad. They made a mass purchase basically for what would be a 99% "managerial" environment (i.e. typing useless memos and looking at Excel spreadsheets). There are only two people in this department who do any type of work with their PCs and that's me and the boss man. Unfortunately, we get stuck with the same junk that everyone else does...

Compaq's & HP's == ('the same old crap')

Both are famous for random lockups and numerous other problems. I wouldn't be so sure that your problems are windows related.

They are great for the repair business. I'll bet 80% of the computers that I fix are either compaq's or hp. Once most people have bought one of these POS' their next computer is custom built.

That one's easy. Just d/l, burn and run any of the dozens of bootable Linux ISOs which are available all over the internet, mount your Wintendo partition and rm the offending file (Of course if you're using NTFS you can also ruin that partition very quickly. Decide yourself what's worse )

I would. I use a HP at home (P3, 733 MHz) and often times have 20-30 apps open at one time under Linux w/ no probs, whereas under Windows opening four was likely to crash it.

Well in my apps list is normally at least 2 Access DB's, sometimes upto 4. As Ctb will tell you too, Access is a resource hog and is very unstable

True, the person I quoted seemed to think it was a HP problem.