Current issues:
When I boot up I get this message:
Failed to connect to a windows service
Windows could not connect to the System Event Notification Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user, you can review the System Event Log for details about why the service didn't respond.
The system log is filled with errors:
The ______ service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 120000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
- Multimedia Class Scheduler
- User Profile Service
- Task Scheduler
- Secondary Logon
- System Event Notification Service
- Shell Hardware Detection
- Themes
- Windows Management Instrumentation service
- The Function Discovery Resource Publication service terminated with the following error: %%-2147024891
- The HomeGroup Provider service depends on the Function Discovery Resource Publication service which failed to start because of the following error: %%-2147024891
The system profile no longer points to my Win7 user profile. The desktop, documents, pictures, music, etc all appear to be using to a sort of default profile. All my data is still saved under C:\Users\Jim however. Until sometime late last night I would get this message, and be unable to save anything to the desktop:
Location is not available
C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location.
That message has gone away, and I can save items to the desktop again. The desktop is all black and the appearance of the start bar is very plain (presumably because it's reading from a barebones desktop.ini file).
I still have a directory in C: called 32788R22FWJFW, which was created by Combofix when I tried running it before opening up this thread. Opening up that directory in Windows Explorer it looks just as if I opened Computer in Windows Explorer. If I do a dir of the root of C: from a DOS prompt, that directory is not listed. If I change to that directory and dir, I see all the ComboFix files (211 files, 13,773,761 bytes). Combofix did not run successfully when I tried to run it, and I was not able to uninstall it.
I'm starting to think that the way to go here is just to back up my data and run the Factory Recovery. I don't have a lot of software installed that I wouldn't be able to replace pretty easily.
