"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob) 10/13/2013 at 22:13 • Filed to: None

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I'm back! I had to reinstall Windows, and now I'm just trying to get everything back.

The good news is that no non-Windows data seems to have been lost, but it did create a new user account. In my C:/Documents/settings directory, the old account was still there.

I had to reinstall the wireless adapter, but I didn't have to reinstall Chrome.

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 22:18

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What happened?

dogisbadob > TheOnelectronic 10/13/2013 at 22:21

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I don't know!

A lot of the system files were missing, svchost was blowing up (using all my memory), and when I went to restart it wouldn't boot up!

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 22:25

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Sounds like a potential virus. Download Microsoft Security Essentials and run that, assuming you're not on Windows 8, where it's included under Windows Defender.

I'm not kidding, either. MSE is one of the best AV programs out there, and it's totally free.

dogisbadob > TheOnelectronic 10/13/2013 at 22:32

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Yeah I know about MSE, and I've had it for at least a year, and I had it at today when this shit happened!

I'm on XP

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 22:35

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Make sure your definitions are up to date, and run a full scan. real-time monitoring won't always catch things, and by default it only scans your OS drive.

Also, and I'm sure I'll get shit for saying this, but I would upgrade to 7 or 8. XP has been around for a very long time, and there are going to be far more exploits targeting it, especially now that (I believe) MS has stopped developing security updates for XP.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 22:40

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Who are you again? You were gone? Hmm...okay.

:p

Glad it all worked out. [Had to reinstall Windows? Thanks Obama.]

dogisbadob > TheOnelectronic 10/13/2013 at 22:40

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Yeah I know. I'd love to get a new computer soon, but I thought I could get by with this one for a few more months!

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 22:44

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Hmm. If your computer is especially old, it could also be a hard drive issue, or any number of other hardware faults.

The program Speed Fan can run health tests on hard drives if you're interested.

dogisbadob > TheOnelectronic 10/13/2013 at 22:52

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Yeah, it's about 10 years old, built September 2003

dogisbadob > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 10/13/2013 at 22:54

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If only I had seen this prior to the reinstall! But of course I couldn't access it though :(

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 23:06

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Are all the parts that old too, or have you replaced things?

I would back up any important data immediately, just in case. External hard drive or large dropbox account would work.

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 23:11

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This is the first time I've noticed your username is DOGISBADOB and not DOGISABOB.

dogisbadob > TheOnelectronic 10/13/2013 at 23:19

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I bought the computer in 2006, upgraded RAM in 2007 (from 512MB to 2GB), and replaced the DVD drive with a DVD-RW burner. I don't think these upgrades caused my problems as they've been working well for years.

TheOnelectronic > dogisbadob 10/13/2013 at 23:25

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Like anything else, computer parts can fail with time. Hard Drives especially, with their very-fast-moving parts, can wear out, and it only takes a little loss of precision to cause total failure.