Last night, I was installing dreamweaver, and it didn't work, so I uninstalled it and restarted my computer. When I looked at the desktop, many of my shortcuts were gone, and on the internet, none of my screen names stay logged on and all of my links in the linkbar were gone. When I tried to reinstall some of them, I was told that there were already links with that name. When I checked the Temporary Internet Files, under settings, I noticed current location was blank and that I had 0 mb available. When I tried to increase it, it would not allow me to. I would get a message "Please select a value between 1 and 0 for how much disk space temporary Internet files can use." I created a temp internet folder and tried to move the temp files to that, but it said the file was too big to move. I tried to restore the system to a recent configuration, but it didn't help. The system is a Dell Dimension 3000. It's running Windows XP. Before I get all the comments of brand and OS, save it. Any help would be appreciated.
Did you try to delete the temporary internet files, i.e. clear your browser cache? I'm assuming you tried that but didn't mention it. Since their temp files, they should only be used by IE and are mostly just files/pages from sites previously visited and cookies. I don't know that this will help with anything but it should be a step taken. That's a weird problem. Are you almost out of free hard drive space?
Just tried to access my Outlook. Got this... "Unable to open default e-mail folders. File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file C:\Documents and Settings\*File Location*\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst"
No other problems with your Windows XP Profile? Folders such as: My Documents My Pictures etc are OK?
go to start--->programs--->accessories--->system tools--->system cleanup then get rid of all temp files
Spoke to tech service and the concluded a trojan got in that diasbled the temp files. Techie said some trojans are designed to do that to prevent downloading updated to preotect against them. I ended up backing up all my files(burned 5 cd's of pictures/1 cd of programs and document) and reloaded a mirror image of the day one programming(Dell--Ctrl F11 at startup). Clean sweeped the system. It gave me a chance to organize my system, so this turned out to be a semi good thing. Ony problem is one of my programs won't run??? I'll tackle that later. Thanks Mango, Samar, and Surfguy for the help!
