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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 22, 2012, 06:48:37 am »

Right, finally finished the repair install. All seems to be working again.

Thanks once again for your support.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:50:54 pm »

I'm pretty sure that it is just screwing with me now, lol. Gotta reinstall SP1 before it will do the upgrade. Paha...ha....ha.....

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:08:59 pm »

Yes, I did that. I honestly can't remember a time that changing the compatabilitity settings has worked for ANYTHING.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:00:46 pm »

Well, so far: Repair install = NO END OF TROUBLE.
Uninstalled SP1 to try with my non-SP1 disc, can't install 7 Pro because I already have 7 Pro. *sigh*.
Next up: Download SP1 Win7 from MyDigitalLife and try that from USB. I expect similar results.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 12:27:42 pm »

Excellent, thanks again.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 12:22:47 pm »

Maybe I will give it a try anyways then.

Just quickly: Do programs installed on a different HDD (or in this case, partition) stay installed as well as those in Program Files? and how about things such as desktop gadgets?

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 12:19:08 pm »

Yeah, I figured it was probably gonna come down to that. Last time I did a repair install was back on XP and I had no end of trouble with the "repaired" version. So I will probably give it a week (I have exams!) then just wipe the thing and start again. Bit of a hassel, but oh well.

Thanks for the help anyway.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 12:09:42 pm »

Well, I have run them both and as far as I can tell, nothing has changed. Same situations I have been describing so far with the addition of icons (Skype, AMD Centre) missing from the toolbar for some reason.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 11:11:48 am »

Nope, I will give them both a go now. I did run MalwareBytes, Avast and Microsoft's malware removal tool.

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General Computer Support / Re: Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 11:01:08 am »

Thanks for the reply.

There is nothing that I can see in the system log.
The Network Discovery option in Advanced sharing settings is off, when I switch it to on, go back to network settings, then back to advanced and check it, it has turned itself off. Furthermore, in the Media Streaming section of advanced settings, it says that Media Streaming is on, but when I click it, it says it is off and pressing the button to turn it on does nothing.

If it is any help, I found another thread about this issue suggesting the problem was with the SharedAccess service. I could not find this service in my list, so I installed it using the file you provided. I now have the service, but it will not start (claims it started, then stopped).

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General Computer Support / Malware cleanup fun

« on: May 21, 2012, 03:18:47 am »

Hi,
I have been have been doing various cleanup operations from a Malware issue I had the other day and am down to (as fas as I can tell) the final problem. The issue is that I cannot get Windows network discovery (and thus media streaming etc.) to turn on at all. When I try to, it just turns itself off again straight away. Yesterday, I was unable to get ANY media streaming services to run (Nero MediaHome, XBMC etc.) although those appear to now be working again.

I have run your all-in-one repair tool (which successfully fixed Windows Firewall, but did appear to screw up DHCP on my LAN connection, which I sorted out). An excellnt tool, I must say, although it did get hung up for about 12 hours on resetting file permissions.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

FYI, I am running Win7 64bit.