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Cannot access any programs on Toshiba Satellite A135-S4517
When i turn on my laptop it will run up to the welcome screen then the screen turns lack and the hard disk light goesoff and it goes no further. Sometimes I will get to the window with icons but when I try to get into any program, ie MS Word, Excel, Outlook, nothing happens and the hard drive does not light up. Also on the bottom lefthad side of screen, all of my start-up icons are not showing, ie, my virus protection icon, network connection icon, etc. When I right click on start to get into my explore files, nothing happens - it says it is inaccessable and stops. But I am able to get out on the internet through Mozilla Foxfire, my MS internet Expolrer is not working either. I click on the MS Internet Explorer icon and it times out. Right now as I am writing this my harddrive light is working sometimes. Help!
Re: Cannot access any programs on Toshiba Satellite...
Either a tune up, or it has a faulty hard drive. If you can manage to get to My Computer, right click your C: drive, select Properties, go to the Tools tab and click Check For Errors. Check all the options, and start it. It will tell you that the tests can only proceed when you reboot. Check it in order to do so and reboot. Good luck.
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It seems like you are experiencing a "No power/no post" issue on your laptop, here are my recommendations :
Disconnect everything attached to your laptop (USB cables, etc)
Disconnect the ac adapter
Carefully remove the laptop's battery
Press and hold down on the power button for at least 10 seconds
Connect the ac adapter to laptop without the battery and turn it on
If this works, return the battery to the laptop and try it again with the ac adapter
If none of the above procedure works, then the laptop needs to be serviced. I've included Toshiba's support contacts below for your further reference :
I think you mean the key to access windows vista home basic. The key should be located on the back of you laptop near some bar codes it should be 25 caracters long like XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
OR
You can be sneaky: Download a nifty program called the "ProductKeyFinder" it should be free. Run it on your friend's computer with the EXACT SAME operating system and and copy down his key. If you get in trouble that's too bad.
Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click Classic View
Click Add/Remove Programs
Select Windows Defender
Click to "remove" it
Restart your computer
Download from http://www.microsoft.com/antispyware
and install the latest version, and let it update.
If it still happens, you may have a computer-virus that is "disabling" Windows Defender everytime you restart.
check the power cord to the laptop in the back wiggle it. check the lights. if they come on and go off with you giggling the power cord. the ac input socket may be broken. you may have to wedge it in one spot to get the two lights to come on let it sit there a while 20 min to charge battery some then turn on laptop.
if unable to turn on the screen just lights flashing RAM is faulty try replacing it , if u have two chips try installing one by one see if it helps
or
if it shows some text on screen and try to boot and u can access bios then
ur OS has corrupted two reasons for that
1. due to virus, malware spyware, etc 2. Hard Disk is getting weak wants replacement
solution first try to re install the OS if u find it difficult to do so then my friend ur hard disk needs replacement
factory reset procedure
Toshiba:
BEFORE TURNING ON THE LAPTOP, press and hold the 0 (zero) button on the
keyboard, then turn on the computer while holding the 0 (zero) button
down. When the Toshiba logo screen appears, you can release the 0 key.
If your internal hard drive is nearly full then adding an external hdd and transfering some of the files to it will free up space on your internal hdd and potentially improve performance.
You can install programs and store files on the external hdd. Obviously it will need to be connected in order to run these programs and access the files.
sounds like your computer needs a serious tune up...
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