Comments | solo_sword: ooc: potential availability issues and HELP OMG.

solo_sword

ooc: potential availability issues and HELP OMG.

Jan 18, 2011 23:31

I have no idea wtf happened to my computer, but it decided it was going to read all the program applications on my desktop as Adobe files, and when I decided I'd try to open the Explorer app with Internet Explorer, it turned all the applications into Explorer files that make me try to download the app as a link that doesn't exist. (Though I'm ( Read more... )

ooc, availability, i never had these problems on my mac!!!!

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trigons_child January 19 2011, 12:55:29 UTC

Weeeeeird!

What are you running as a virus scan? Try AVG; it's served me well in the past.

You might also want to try uninstalling adobe reader and see what that does.

justwantsquiet January 19 2011, 13:45:08 UTC

AVG is great, omg -- I use Microsoft Security Essentials, which works beautifully for me as an every day thing.

And I agree with the uninstallation of Adobe -- I'll see if I can get my techie boy on the phone today and see what he recommends, too.

weetuskenraider January 19 2011, 14:08:19 UTC

Sounds like there could have been something wonked up in the registry.

Can you try downloading and running CCleaner to see if that clears anything up? (Actually, I recommend CCleaner to anyone running Windows in general. I heart it.)

(Also, did you get a Win7 Starter disc with the computer by any chance? You'd need an external optical drive, but I can help out there . . .)

whateverknight January 19 2011, 22:07:55 UTC

That really sounds like a virus.

The thing is, some of the smarter viruses are able to infect virus checkers and prevent them from finding anything. If you can, make an emergency disk from a virus checker on another computer and then boot from it on the messed-up computer.

...Another thing, too: If the icons are all wrong, but the files themselves are fine, that's just a problem with your computer's icon cache. It sounds like you're saying they're all opening with the wrong program, though, which is a different issue entirely.

solo_sword January 20 2011, 01:48:56 UTC

Thank you for the advice, cuz two different virus scans came back clean. I just have to see if I can do it from work, since the only other computers I have are Macs, where I don't have any of that. (I miss my Macs.)