[Insert Program Here] has stopped working

[ZakAttack]

This happened when the plug of the computer came out and when it rebooted, I had about 10 different windows open up on start-up saying 'Quicktime/Microsoft Office/etc has stopped working'

I've seen other people have this problem but no solution. Help please, thank you.

EDIT: I can't open microsoft word and quicktime.

[Preppy Veteran]

There's really not enough here to go on. What happens if you run "sfc /scannow" from an elevated cmd.exe prompt?

Given the limited data so far, this only smells like system corruption.

[ZakAttack]

wth is an "elevated" cmd lol

if I type in sfc /scannow, i get 'you must be administrator' something...grr, so annoying (how do you make it so you can click on progs and they'll be run as administrator automatically...?

when I use it on administrator, it says something about corrupt files but it couldn't fix all of them

[Preppy Veteran]

elevated == run as administrator

Yep, that's the error that I thought you had. If it can't fix all of them you probably need to reinstall/repair Windows - it sounds like you had a hard drive corruption during the blackout. =\

[ZakAttack]

This is ridiculous. They need to standardise Vista. On XP, the computer's plug must've come out like a hundred times, and never anything wrong would happen. This happens once or twice on Vista and everything stops working. Gr...

How do I fix this? Reformat and reinstall everything?

[Dance.]

This is ridiculous. They need to standardise Vista. On XP, the computer's plug must've come out like a hundred times, and never anything wrong would happen. This happens once or twice on Vista and everything stops working. Gr...

How do I fix this? Reformat and reinstall everything?

Actually your just unlucky that it did corrupt your data. And yes, you format and install Vista again.