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I get up this morning and turn on my computer. After booting, I notice about
half the desktop icons are missing. When I take a closer look, I notice
software that was removed has been reinstalled. I also notice that many
programs that had been installed in the past several months are gone.
Everything was working fine last night. The only thing that has change
recently is; I dropped Bellsouth DSL and had Time Warner RoadRunner High
Speed Cable installed. This was installed last Saturday. I added a new email
account for RoadRunner in Outlook and it's even gone. If I look in my cookies
directory, all the files are dated 4/2003 except the ones I've created
tonight. When I use the file explorer to browse the directories, it appears
that many of my programs have been removed but some are untouched. For
example: I had a licensed version of Ad-aware SE and WS_FTP Pro and both of
those are missing. I was developing a Microsoft Access VBA program and notice
that all the code now is dated back to 2003 (glad I have that backed up). On
the other hand, it is still running Microsoft Digital Image Pro 7.0 and it
looks like it's running the latest version of Microsoft Office and still has
all my XP Developer software installed.
I'm running a wireless router so I have a firewall and I also have
encryption enabled on the router. I tried to do a system restore but it will
only let me restore to today’s date. No other dates are available. I also
tried running the restore from a dos prompt in safe mode... still no other
dates available. I'm unable to run Norton Antivirus because it now tells me
my subscription has expired. It is also running Norton Antivirus 2003 when
before it was running Norton Antivirus 2005. When I start Norton Antivirus it
shows the last virus definition files are dated 4/9/2003.
I'm running a P4PE Motherboard with a 3.06 GHz processor & 1 Gig of DDR
Memory. Hyperthreading is turned on and I'm also running a Raid 0 Array using
two 80 Gig drives.
Any ideas about what happened or how I should proceed? I found instructions
on the Microsoft support site on rebuilding the entire registry… would that
help? I guess I should download the latest virus defs and run Norton from the
dos prompt.
Sure wish there was a simple way out…
--
Thanks in advance for your help!
Steve
"The less I know, the more I learn"
I get up this morning and turn on my computer. After booting, I notice about
half the desktop icons are missing. When I take a closer look, I notice
software that was removed has been reinstalled. I also notice that many
programs that had been installed in the past several months are gone.
Everything was working fine last night. The only thing that has change
recently is; I dropped Bellsouth DSL and had Time Warner RoadRunner High
Speed Cable installed. This was installed last Saturday. I added a new email
account for RoadRunner in Outlook and it's even gone. If I look in my cookies
directory, all the files are dated 4/2003 except the ones I've created
tonight. When I use the file explorer to browse the directories, it appears
that many of my programs have been removed but some are untouched. For
example: I had a licensed version of Ad-aware SE and WS_FTP Pro and both of
those are missing. I was developing a Microsoft Access VBA program and notice
that all the code now is dated back to 2003 (glad I have that backed up). On
the other hand, it is still running Microsoft Digital Image Pro 7.0 and it
looks like it's running the latest version of Microsoft Office and still has
all my XP Developer software installed.
I'm running a wireless router so I have a firewall and I also have
encryption enabled on the router. I tried to do a system restore but it will
only let me restore to today’s date. No other dates are available. I also
tried running the restore from a dos prompt in safe mode... still no other
dates available. I'm unable to run Norton Antivirus because it now tells me
my subscription has expired. It is also running Norton Antivirus 2003 when
before it was running Norton Antivirus 2005. When I start Norton Antivirus it
shows the last virus definition files are dated 4/9/2003.
I'm running a P4PE Motherboard with a 3.06 GHz processor & 1 Gig of DDR
Memory. Hyperthreading is turned on and I'm also running a Raid 0 Array using
two 80 Gig drives.
Any ideas about what happened or how I should proceed? I found instructions
on the Microsoft support site on rebuilding the entire registry… would that
help? I guess I should download the latest virus defs and run Norton from the
dos prompt.
Sure wish there was a simple way out…
--
Thanks in advance for your help!
Steve
"The less I know, the more I learn"