Hello folks, and thanks for reading in advance.
Ok, so I have been on this site and many others in the last two days and google kept pointing me here so I joined. Plus many responses to most threads.
It all started when I was installing windows updates. (the little yellow shield next to the clock on bottom right of monitor). I have three anti-virus/anti-malware progies plus Registy Mechanic, so I trusted it and it was valid like all before.
After install the little yellow shield was still there and an error message popped up saying something I forget. So I do the whole proses over again and at the same time I decided to update Mozilla Firefox because the last up date of theirs had a few issues including; loss of history usage, few bookmarks would vanish, and not able to set bookmarks at all were a few.
Well, the computer had finished with one update right after the other and asked if I wanted to shutdown. I clicked yes and it took a few seconds longer than normal and all, then flashes and brings up the little window that tells you there is still a program running. It gave the option to just quit and I clicked on that.
Now due to two Tylenol PM and an early morning I just flipped the power switch on the power source.
I know I'm sooooo stupid for doing so. Ok, so, I have tried everything like accessing the system restore, and tried "explorer.exe" and just a list of odds and ends. It almost always says "whatever I try" "is not a valid Win32 application"
Normally I would just put in my XP cd as always before but my Ex g/f decided she deserved all my cds so grrrrr to that.
Now recently when I have been surfing forums I consistently get sent to "bestwebchoices" and been getting pop-ups when on that site. Also two of my anit-bad things programs don't work in normal mode or in safe mode.
Any and all advice would be most appreciative.
If that's not enough to start.. Please ask questions.
TacRob
Ok, so I have been on this site and many others in the last two days and google kept pointing me here so I joined. Plus many responses to most threads.
It all started when I was installing windows updates. (the little yellow shield next to the clock on bottom right of monitor). I have three anti-virus/anti-malware progies plus Registy Mechanic, so I trusted it and it was valid like all before.
After install the little yellow shield was still there and an error message popped up saying something I forget. So I do the whole proses over again and at the same time I decided to update Mozilla Firefox because the last up date of theirs had a few issues including; loss of history usage, few bookmarks would vanish, and not able to set bookmarks at all were a few.
Well, the computer had finished with one update right after the other and asked if I wanted to shutdown. I clicked yes and it took a few seconds longer than normal and all, then flashes and brings up the little window that tells you there is still a program running. It gave the option to just quit and I clicked on that.
Now due to two Tylenol PM and an early morning I just flipped the power switch on the power source.
I know I'm sooooo stupid for doing so. Ok, so, I have tried everything like accessing the system restore, and tried "explorer.exe" and just a list of odds and ends. It almost always says "whatever I try" "is not a valid Win32 application"
Normally I would just put in my XP cd as always before but my Ex g/f decided she deserved all my cds so grrrrr to that.
Now recently when I have been surfing forums I consistently get sent to "bestwebchoices" and been getting pop-ups when on that site. Also two of my anit-bad things programs don't work in normal mode or in safe mode.
Any and all advice would be most appreciative.
If that's not enough to start.. Please ask questions.
TacRob
