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HCour
I installed a Spybot program to track and delete spyware. So it
scanned my drive and deleted about 70 files that it found. I figured
if it screwed up my system then 1) I could use its Recovery option to
undo the deletions or 2) If that didn't work or it was disastrous and
crashed my system, no problem because I just cloned my c: drive to my
d: drive 3 days ago.
So after it deletes the files I reboot and all that comes up in
Windows is wallpaper, no icons, start bar, nothing. I reboot in safe
mode, it starts up fine, I run Spybot and do the recovery and reboot
normally, same problem. So turn off my machine, switch the hd's,
change the bios, boot up, Windows starts fine. I go to uninstall
Spybot and I see it is on my present C: drive! Huh? It should be on
my present D: drive, since it was the C: drive when I installed the
program. This means it installed itself on the D: drive. Weird. So
anyway, I uninstall it, then I go to format my D: drive so I can run
Norton and clone my C: to the D:, but it won't format, telling me a
program is using the D: drive. This makes no sense as I do this all
the time and nothing should have changed on this drive since I last
cloned it 3 days ago. But I can't figure out what's using my D: drive
so I turn the computer off, unplug the D: drive and remove it from
the bios, thinking when I reboot into Windows maybe whatever program
is using the D: will give me an error message or something. But when
I reboot it gets to the Windows Welcome screen and locks up!
So this program has done something somehow to make my present C:
drive dependent on my D: drive to run.
I have a program that shows everything running on my system and there
are about 15 .exe files and others running from D:Windows\System32
folders. So I'm pretty sure Spybot screwed up my registry. I do not
have the Windows "System Restore" running so that's no help. How can I
repair
my Registry?
Thanks,
Harold
scanned my drive and deleted about 70 files that it found. I figured
if it screwed up my system then 1) I could use its Recovery option to
undo the deletions or 2) If that didn't work or it was disastrous and
crashed my system, no problem because I just cloned my c: drive to my
d: drive 3 days ago.
So after it deletes the files I reboot and all that comes up in
Windows is wallpaper, no icons, start bar, nothing. I reboot in safe
mode, it starts up fine, I run Spybot and do the recovery and reboot
normally, same problem. So turn off my machine, switch the hd's,
change the bios, boot up, Windows starts fine. I go to uninstall
Spybot and I see it is on my present C: drive! Huh? It should be on
my present D: drive, since it was the C: drive when I installed the
program. This means it installed itself on the D: drive. Weird. So
anyway, I uninstall it, then I go to format my D: drive so I can run
Norton and clone my C: to the D:, but it won't format, telling me a
program is using the D: drive. This makes no sense as I do this all
the time and nothing should have changed on this drive since I last
cloned it 3 days ago. But I can't figure out what's using my D: drive
so I turn the computer off, unplug the D: drive and remove it from
the bios, thinking when I reboot into Windows maybe whatever program
is using the D: will give me an error message or something. But when
I reboot it gets to the Windows Welcome screen and locks up!
So this program has done something somehow to make my present C:
drive dependent on my D: drive to run.
I have a program that shows everything running on my system and there
are about 15 .exe files and others running from D:Windows\System32
folders. So I'm pretty sure Spybot screwed up my registry. I do not
have the Windows "System Restore" running so that's no help. How can I
repair
my Registry?
Thanks,
Harold