Posted: 1/16/2011 2:05:11 PM EDT
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Guys , I need some help.
I restarted my PC, windoelws log in screen came up, put in my password.... I hear the little windows tune my wallpaper shows up, and NOTHING else!! No icons, no start button, nothing but wallpaper!! I can get into the task manager. But nothing else. Is the something in processes I should look for? |
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Quoted: Probably want to download malwarebytes and run it to see if anything pops up in it's scan. Ding. explorer.exe 'fix' is just that, a workaround. Run spybot s&d too, and a virus scan. Try running msconfig and changing normal/diagnostic/selective or safe mode. See if you have the same symptoms. If you had 'normal'(the previous condition that you were used to) and now you have something else, something changed. Install any programs? Defrag it lately? How old of a machine? Will it eventually start up if you leave it alone? etc...etc... |
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Something is defanitly wrong.
It won't open anything from the control panel. It can't see my wireless. I installed a couple of programs in the past couple of days. Today was the first time I shut it down in a while. I installed Gimp, recuva, and new version of winamp. |
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Did you boot into safemode and run an updated malwarebytes scan? If that doesn't do it the next thing to try is to create a new user account and see if it has the same issue. NOTHING in control panel will run. Including "user accounts" malwarebytes and spybot will not start up either. |
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Your other option is to do a "repair install" when booting off of the OS cd.
This will overwrite all system files but leave applications and data intact. If that doesn't work the next option is to restore the registry or "system state" from a backup. The easiest would be to pull the drive, plug drive into working computer and backup the data then reinstall OS. |
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Quoted: Quoted: At least now you have time to get to an Apple Store.  I can't believe it took 19 posts.  We will all succumb some day. As a Mac owner, I can't fathom the concept of having to erase my entire hard drive, and re-install the OS from scratch, just because of the continuous and well-known ineptitude of Microsoft. If that ever happened to me, they would lose a customer immediately. I can't think of any other product where consumers tolerate such garbage. But anyway. I'm glad the OPs computer is working. Seems like you guys fixed it. |
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Quoted: Never had that happen to me.. And i have 3 pcs running right now... damn. Quoted: Quoted: At least now you have time to get to an Apple Store. I can't believe it took 19 posts. We will all succumb some day. As a Mac owner, I can't fathom the concept of having to erase my entire hard drive, and re-install the OS from scratch, just because of the continuous and well-known ineptitude of Microsoft. If that ever happened to me, they would lose a customer immediately. I can't think of any other product where consumers tolerate such garbage. But anyway. I'm glad the OPs computer is working. Seems like you guys fixed it.  |
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Shut the computer down, then start it back up, as it boots up press the F8 key like a retarded monkey until a screen comes up giving you boot options, boot into "Safe Mode with Networking", once there open your web browser and open this http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5756&file=9&evp=693ee0b20204960edfd909666f809b26, even with a fairly nasty infection this should allow you to download and install malwarebytes.
The version you have installed is disabled, probably out of date, and is likely corrupted with the malware, the malware has likely hijacked your browser to the point that downloading it at almost any other site will be prevented, use the link I provided to the Majorgeeks mirror. Install Malwarebytes, update it, run it, reboot your computer and run it again. Once that is done grab Combofix, and whatever else you can think of. I have seen versions of malware that stop explorer.exe from running so that when you boot you just get a blank screen, what I normally find on those is that there is a process created by the malware that runs before explorer and hangs up. Often killing that process will get your desktop up, but you still need to be in safe mode to get rid of the malware. |
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Once you have backed up your data to a flash drive, that you are not going to plug into something else (yet) -
Go into c:\windows\system32\temp Delete everything you can. Sort on date, and start at the oldest stuff. You'll start getting to stuff that can't be deleted because it's in use when you get to recent stuff. I don't have a WinXP box handy, so this is from memory - use common sense and you'll be fine. Go into c:\documents and settings\(your logon name)\local settings\temp, and start deleting all of the crap in there like you did with c:\windows\system32\temp. Hold the power button down (to prompt the boot version menu), and go into safe mode. Run Spyware S&D, Malware Bytes, etc. If they don't run, pop up task manager, go to processess, check "show processes from all users" and look for anything with all numbers for a process, etc. f you see stuff that looks really suspicous, kill it. (windows service hosts aren't - although it's annoying as hell that they display services in that manner). Reboot, and try again. Once you get malware scanning going, try everything you can find on cnet.com. And stop trying to find so much free pr0n 
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Never had that happen to me.. And i have 3 pcs running right now... damn. Quoted:
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At least now you have time to get to an Apple Store. I can't believe it took 19 posts.
We will all succumb some day. As a Mac owner, I can't fathom the concept of having to erase my entire hard drive, and re-install the OS from scratch, just because of the continuous and well-known ineptitude of Microsoft. If that ever happened to me, they would lose a customer immediately. I can't think of any other product where consumers tolerate such garbage. But anyway. I'm glad the OPs computer is working. Seems like you guys fixed it.
Same here, except for the 3 PCs currently running thing. 
I never used to have anything against Macs, but my mom has an iMac back home. When I'm back there and I try to use it, it's the biggest POS computer I've ever worked on, I swear. It's slow, likes to freeze up, and in general I can't stand the software. It seems like some of the simplest tasks are made difficult, either because of software incompatibility or because it seems like they went out of their way to be different from Microsoft, even if the Microsoft way just made sense. In some cases it's like they put forth their best effort to make sure I wouldn't personalize or customize the way I do anything. I'll not likely ever buy a Mac. |
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At least now you have time to get to an Apple Store. I can't believe it took 19 posts.
We will all succumb some day. As a Mac owner, I can't fathom the concept of having to erase my entire hard drive, and re-install the OS from scratch, just because of the continuous and well-known ineptitude of Microsoft. If that ever happened to me, they would lose a customer immediately. I can't think of any other product where consumers tolerate such garbage. But anyway. I'm glad the OPs computer is working. Seems like you guys fixed it. I've always wondered, how iPhans can be so smug, when 95% of productivity software (you know - not surfing Arfcom) is made by Microsoft, and your OS is still so generally useless that malware writers still don't target it (and that the vast majority of it's user base are college students and "artists", meaning both are broke and don't have any money to steal in the first place). |