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palican

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Hi everyone, I'm in need of some dire help.

I have windows XP, and I had learned that a program called "Eraser" is good with security. So I download Eraser, which is supposed to overwrite data with patterns. I choose to overwrite unused space on the C drive, and afterwards Internet Explorer does not properly load! The top inch of the page comes up but nothing else! Here is a screenshot: Posted Image


Everything works VERY slow now as well. Mozilla Firefox works ok but most text is in cursive and I don't know how to reverse that.

I feel so awful because I wrecked the computer that my parents use! I would gratefully accept any help you guys can give me! My AIM is "thecyclopsraptor" if one of you wants to help me there.
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try a system restore and get rid of that erase program

ugliest program ive heard

nothing can be fixed with it

if you want to uninstall programs or files i can help in a much more safer way

Edited by rushin1nd, 06 November 2006 - 11:55 PM.

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You need to use another computer to download the IE installer package, about 480kb, to a floppy and run it on that machine to reinstall IE. You need the one for your version of IE. You can find it at the Microsoft Downloads site. It should reinstall and replace the missing parts without any problem. It may tell you that IE is already installed, just ignore that.
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