Hi,

I just searched the vista forums through a 100 different results, and
have found no answer to my problem.

Let me describe the problem first: The Start Button (Orb) in Vista does
not respond to prompt, neither left click nor keyboard button. However I
can right click the Orb and receive the pop up menu. I can change the
Menu to 'Classic' and then it will work, but am unable to change it back
to Vista.

Now to the Desktop : I cannot right click anywhere on the desktop and
receive a pop-up menu. I can click on any Icon or Short Cut in the
desktop itself and get those to work.

Items related to these problems:


- had a power shortage last night, but the computer was already off
before it happened, so I don't know if it is related or not - but
could be the cause?
- Cannot run cmd from Classic Menu nor from desktop
- There are no descriptions of the Hard Drives when I explore the 'My
Computer' and not the DVD drives either.
- Have 2 user accounts (one Admin, one family) and all problems
exhist in both accounts.
- have tried a repair install with my boot cd and it found nothing
(perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I boot from CD, choose Repair and the
cd runs for a bit and then the message appears that says nothing is
wrong).
- have restored to a previous point (choose 2 days ago as restore
point) and problem still exhists. Choose an even earlier date, problem
still exhists.
- Have run sys /scannow from cmd by right clicking on a folder and
opening cmd in that directory. Ran cmd from Admin account. Sysscan
failed after verifying 83% with Error message 'Windows resource
protection could not perfrom the requested action'.
- Have tried to open Taskbar and close explorer.exe and then open New
Task, but New Task in Task Bar does not function and then I must log
off or restart to get explorer.exe back.
- have googled the problem but have found no solutions
- Have tried to create a slipstream CD with SP1, but it fails after
trying to install SP1 with different error messages.
- Have tried to Uninstall SP1 through various methods, (safe mode,
boot cd, restore points, control panel) and everything has failed -
unable to remove SP1.
- *All I want to accomplish now (of course if the head issues can't
be fixed) is to move my pictures from my Boot Drive to a backup drive
so I can re-install.* *Any way to do this?*


I have Vista 64 Ultimate with SP1 installed and all updates to
yesterday.

So how can I fix this? I hope that there is a solution that does not
involve re-installing Vista.

Any Help Please?


--
logansFar

Malke answered in your other "identical" post. If you were to choose
multiple groups to post to in a single post, any answer that you receive
would be seen under each post in each news group.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"logansFar" wrote in message
...

Hi,

I just searched the vista forums through a 100 different results, and
have found no answer to my problem.

Let me describe the problem first: The Start Button (Orb) in Vista does
not respond to prompt, neither left click nor keyboard button. However I
can right click the Orb and receive the pop up menu. I can change the
Menu to 'Classic' and then it will work, but am unable to change it back
to Vista.

Now to the Desktop : I cannot right click anywhere on the desktop and
receive a pop-up menu. I can click on any Icon or Short Cut in the
desktop itself and get those to work.

Items related to these problems:


- had a power shortage last night, but the computer was already off
before it happened, so I don't know if it is related or not - but
could be the cause?
- Cannot run cmd from Classic Menu nor from desktop
- There are no descriptions of the Hard Drives when I explore the 'My
Computer' and not the DVD drives either.
- Have 2 user accounts (one Admin, one family) and all problems
exhist in both accounts.
- have tried a repair install with my boot cd and it found nothing
(perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I boot from CD, choose Repair and the
cd runs for a bit and then the message appears that says nothing is
wrong).
- have restored to a previous point (choose 2 days ago as restore
point) and problem still exhists. Choose an even earlier date, problem
still exhists.
- Have run sys /scannow from cmd by right clicking on a folder and
opening cmd in that directory. Ran cmd from Admin account. Sysscan
failed after verifying 83% with Error message 'Windows resource
protection could not perfrom the requested action'.
- Have tried to open Taskbar and close explorer.exe and then open New
Task, but New Task in Task Bar does not function and then I must log
off or restart to get explorer.exe back.
- have googled the problem but have found no solutions
- Have tried to create a slipstream CD with SP1, but it fails after
trying to install SP1 with different error messages.
- Have tried to Uninstall SP1 through various methods, (safe mode,
boot cd, restore points, control panel) and everything has failed -
unable to remove SP1.
- *All I want to accomplish now (of course if the head issues can't
be fixed) is to move my pictures from my Boot Drive to a backup drive
so I can re-install.* *Any way to do this?*


I have Vista 64 Ultimate with SP1 installed and all updates to
yesterday.

So how can I fix this? I hope that there is a solution that does not
involve re-installing Vista.

Any Help Please?


--
logansFar

logansFar wrote:
Hi,

I just searched the vista forums through a 100 different results, and
have found no answer to my problem.

Let me describe the problem first: The Start Button (Orb) in Vista does
not respond to prompt, neither left click nor keyboard button. However I
can right click the Orb and receive the pop up menu. I can change the
Menu to 'Classic' and then it will work, but am unable to change it back
to Vista.

Now to the Desktop : I cannot right click anywhere on the desktop and
receive a pop-up menu. I can click on any Icon or Short Cut in the
desktop itself and get those to work.

Items related to these problems:


- had a power shortage last night, but the computer was already off
before it happened, so I don't know if it is related or not - but
could be the cause?
- Cannot run cmd from Classic Menu nor from desktop
- There are no descriptions of the Hard Drives when I explore the 'My
Computer' and not the DVD drives either.
- Have 2 user accounts (one Admin, one family) and all problems
exhist in both accounts.
- have tried a repair install with my boot cd and it found nothing
(perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I boot from CD, choose Repair and the
cd runs for a bit and then the message appears that says nothing is
wrong).
- have restored to a previous point (choose 2 days ago as restore
point) and problem still exhists. Choose an even earlier date, problem
still exhists.
- Have run sys /scannow from cmd by right clicking on a folder and
opening cmd in that directory. Ran cmd from Admin account. Sysscan
failed after verifying 83% with Error message 'Windows resource
protection could not perfrom the requested action'.
- Have tried to open Taskbar and close explorer.exe and then open New
Task, but New Task in Task Bar does not function and then I must log
off or restart to get explorer.exe back.
- have googled the problem but have found no solutions
- Have tried to create a slipstream CD with SP1, but it fails after
trying to install SP1 with different error messages.
- Have tried to Uninstall SP1 through various methods, (safe mode,
boot cd, restore points, control panel) and everything has failed -
unable to remove SP1.
- *All I want to accomplish now (of course if the head issues can't
be fixed) is to move my pictures from my Boot Drive to a backup drive
so I can re-install.* *Any way to do this?*


I have Vista 64 Ultimate with SP1 installed and all updates to
yesterday.

So how can I fix this? I hope that there is a solution that does not
involve re-installing Vista.

Any Help Please?



Seems to me that everything you describe as happening points to a
hardware problem. Re-installing the OS is not going to change that.

Suggest you take your computer to a repair shop (not one of the big box
stores) and let them diagnose and repair it. Point out to them that you
have data on there that you don't want to lose and chances are they can
recover it for you.

Your situation points out the folly of keeping irreplaceable data on the
boot drive without a regular external back up of it.

Good luck.