I recently got an eMachines W3650, and it was working like a pearl until yesterday. My sister was trying to unplug the paper shredder and accidentally unplugged the multi-outlet thing that my computer was hooked up to.

 

 

 

Now whenever I start my computer, it gets to the main desktop screen, works fine, then the mouse freezes with the hourglass next to it before anything can even load. I know that the problem isn't the mouse, because it works fine in safe mode.

 

I've ran a virus scan, so that's not it.

 

 

 

Any ideas?

maybe some program that was running at the time and didn't get shut down correctly is trying to recover lost data but freezes while doing it.

 

i know ms word 2007 does that, but not sure what other programs.

Problem solved.

 

 

 

I'm not sure what it was exactly, so I ran a system restore to Monday when it was working fine and now I'm all systems go.

 

 

 

Back to thieving ^_^

I'd almost bet something got corrupted in one of the directories that System Restore monitors. That would explain why the restore worked for you. :-k ... Anywho, since the problem is no more, I'm calling it "Case Closed"... But please don't lose power like that again? 8-)

 

 

 

~D. V. "Darn launch errors..." Devnull