Help,lost windows apps

[WillyHeckaslike]

Originally Posted by Poppy

Clever cloggs..... Was gonna suggest that next.....

Too late.....must learn to type faster.

[Poppy]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

Too late.....must learn to type faster.

I have computer problems....

[WillyHeckaslike]

Plus, if you suspect any malware might be active on your pc download and run the free version of Malwarebytes - try the quick scan for starters then do a full scan if the quickie reveals nowt. The full scan can take a couple of hours or more depending on the spec of your pc .:xmas-smiley-024:

[WillyHeckaslike]

Originally Posted by Poppy

I have computer problems....

So does that Flyer, his tends to repeat on 'im. :xmas-smiley-016:

[MisterTomez]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

Plus, if you suspect any malware might be active on your pc download and run the free version of Malwarebytes - try the quick scan for starters then do a full scan if the quickie reveals nowt. The full scan can take a couple of hours or more depending on the spec of your pc .:xmas-smiley-024:

Good call...but might be difficult without his windows installer working. Lol

[suzublu]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

Is the installer switched on? To check, click START click RUN type msconfig. Under SERVICES ensure that the box is ticked for the Windows Installer. If not, tick it click OK and restart the pc.

Done that & all the items are ticked,but the ones i need say, stopped,mostly the microsoft ones.Some are running,but most stopped,i have no sound from the speakers,so that's been stopped as well.Just done a full,& i mean,full, scan,9 hours with Kaspersky,no issues,so i've backed up all files in case i need to re-install.But why have all the microsoft/windows stuff been stopped?Thanks for all your help btw,may do Harry's idea tomorrow,can't be bothered tonight.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by suzublu

Done that & all the items are ticked,but the ones i need say, stopped,mostly the microsoft ones.Some are running,but most stopped,i have no sound from the speakers,so that's been stopped as well.Just done a full,& i mean,full, scan,9 hours with Kaspersky,no issues,so i've backed up all files in case i need to re-install.But why have all the microsoft/windows stuff been stopped?Thanks for all your help btw,may do Harry's idea tomorrow,can't be bothered tonight.

My laptop has just suffered an attack, which I have never seen before. It was quite clever, in that it almost completely disables your PC from doing anything else but run its fake virus scanner. Disabled my genuine virus scanner, stopped me running any software other than it and all it showed was the fake scanner.

I just clicked on a link to download a very convincing Flash update and that was it.....

Very easy to disable and dispose of though and here is how...

http://trojan-killer.net/privacy-pro...al-guidelines/

[suzublu]

All sorted now,just did what you advised Harry,rebooted using cd & saving data to my backup file,all windows working as normal.Thank you all for the helpful advice.