Re: Windows will not boot....

From: Jon_Hildrum (Jon_Hildrum_at_amsn.com)
Date: 02/20/05


Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:00:41 -0800

Try booting safe mode and use restore from safe mode. See what happens

-- 
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP
Jon_Hildrum@msn.com
www.hildrum.com
"Ross." <Ross.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DF18209B-C591-4136-8B50-91782A6B48F1@microsoft.com...
> Hi, after going away for a weekend my pc became infected with some
annoying
> malware. I then did what i usualy do which is run "Spybot SaD" and "hijack
> this" which seemed to be effective, although one program wasn't removed,
the
> source of all the other malware. Normally Spybot would open after a reboot
to
> remove it since it was no longer in memory, but it just didn't :(. I then
> tried using another program AVG virus remover (free edition). It found
alot
> of infected files and i removed them, at the end of the scan the program
> asked me to reboot. No each time that i reboot, i can get to the login
screen
> ok, and the welcome music runs alright, but none of the shortcuts,
startbar
> or anything (apart from the background). I managed to run programs through
> Taskman (just) but many things don't work well.
>
> I can't use system restore because all windows progams are not
functioning.
> PLEASE HELP!!!.
>
> Ross.


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