Ok people here is a good one for you!
im quite sure i downloaded a virus (well when i eventually managed to do a scan there were somthing like 5000 issues!!)
to start of with my computer restarted and and would not load, the blue screen came up saying windows had shut down to protect my files.
so i restarted it again and before the blue screen there was options to load in safe mode (some other variations of safe mode) normal windows and to load windows using the last settings that worked, i tried normal windows first and that came up with the blue screen again, however the third time i noticed the last working settings option and that loaded windows, or rather i was logged on but the only thing there was my desktop picture, so i Ctrl + Alt + Del and got the task manager and tried run explorer.exe and it came up with the error sign saying windows doesn't know what program to run this withso either choose from list of programs or search the internet, so first i try and use explore.exe to run explorer.exe, and yea that didnt work. i managed to get windows (sort of) working by trying to open things from my firefox download list using explorer.exe and now i have my desktop files and the start bar and can open folders but and programs wont work, i managed to run a scan using my McAfee by right clicking on my computer and clicking scan it treated about 5000 somthings. i restartedmy computer and this time windows ran but with the same issues, i can run regedit because it is a .exe and i cant open any other program. i have read some other posts and they mention iexplorer.exe that isnt running on my computer (that im aware of) and i cant find the file.
oh and also hidden files wont unhide themselfs
Configuration: Windows XP Firefox 3.0.6
This problem is a beefy one.
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