Is there a way to repair windows without having to reformat your hard-drive and reinstall XP?

 

 

 

I tried to install this skin thing to make my computer look like it has Vista running and i didnt like it so i uninstalled it and now i cant use windowblinds to restore my other skin. All the icons are huge and look extremely ugly and it looks really bad to me.

 

 

 

Can anyone help?

Change your resolution if they all look big and ugly perhaps?

 

 

 

You could also try a system restore.

 

 

 

As for the repair, put a windows XP disk in your drive, set it to boot from there and you should get 3 options, one of those should be to repair XP, select that option and hope it works.

I system restored it and set it back to last saturday. I lost some stuff but nothing I couldnt get back.

 

 

 

Thanks as always Stuart_G

Yea, just pop in the windows CD. Don't touch anything though, it will say press "X" now to go to such and such. You don't want any of that.

 

 

 

Wait for everything to load up, will take a good 6 or 7 minutes. There should be 3 options, I don't remember them off the top of my head, but go to the one that pretty much says "install windows on hard drive"

 

 

 

then it will say that it found a partition with windows already installed, and it will ask if you want to reformat and install, or if you just want to repair windows. Just use the repair option...

 

 

 

though, I think your problem could be more easilly solved with

 

 

 

going to your desktop >> right click >> properties

 

 

 

Click the appearance tab, go to effects, and uncheck use large icons. You can also customize everything from within there, and right clicking your start menu and choosing properties as well.

 

 

 

Make sure that skin is completely uninstalled and try reinstalling windows blinds. You could also have problems if your trying to use 3rd party / pirated / warez versions of the software.