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General Computer Support / Re: FIXED Running over 1 day?

« on: February 05, 2016, 04:18:03 pm »

The Chkdsk /f didn't find any problems the times I ran it during this process.

I did get all the viruses gone but MSE is still finding Alureon J, which I have run MB Rootfix, TDSSkiller, and several others that cannot find it.  But all my services are back up and running, my firewall is working, Windows Defender started with no issues.  I was able to install the gajillion (ok, 200) Windows updates.

I'll run chkdsk again tomorrow and then try to re-run WR.  Since I have everything else clean, I can let it run as long as it wants, now.

An off subject question - What is YOUR preferred internet security program?

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General Computer Support / Re: Running over 1 day?

« on: February 05, 2016, 04:59:08 am »

Done!!!  Boggin, your steps worked.  Changing subject and making donation!  WR is still taking hours, however, all I had issues with after the ESET fix was BITS and I found a .bat file to run which installed it in services!    Now I can FINALLY update this puppy!  Thank you guys SO MUCH!!!!

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General Computer Support / Re: Running over 1 day?

« on: February 03, 2016, 09:21:50 am »

I've been unable to work on this pc but back to it today.  I've run chkdsk, all good.  I think I've accidentally been killing process #2 - the Program dialog box is up, and then a grey dialog box showing updates has been popping up - It says output to this window has been stopped - but it seems to slowly, so slowly, be processing files.  I was closing that out - presuming the program would continue to run behind it.  I'm guessing that is not the case, so this time, I am leaving it up and running all the way through.

I've tried so many fixes in the meantime - Windows Update Agent, etc - because so many services will not start or are not present.  All having no impact.  I can't update Windows, it shows that it's never been updated - but I can see that it's SP1 and I see the SP in the list of previous updates! 

This little PC is worth so little, I really should just pull all the data to my WD external, and trash it.  But I can't stand knowing there something wrong like this and not fix it!!!

I will update again once this current run of WR finalizes.

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General Computer Support / Re: Running over 1 day?

« on: January 31, 2016, 07:25:30 am »

Hello Boggin, thank you for responding!

Windows 7 - this is an old emachine, that I bought for the kids to use, and they of course spywared it up.

I did several successful removal sessions, but one that stuck hard was aleuron j - and at that time, I was using windows security essentials as my protection - since the kids time on the internet was monitored, I thought I'd be safe using that.

I began getting errors on Windows Firewall not being able to be turned on, in any way - so I started Services.msc, and learned that several of the services were not running, and could not be started.  I got several errors along the way, the most recent of which directed me to this site. 

I tried to run chkdsk /f and got an error, telling me (sorry I didn't write it down) that it was locked and offering to run it on my next startup.

It's running now.

When I ran Windows repair from the safe start menu, of couse, it found nothing. 

All I really want to do is get the system cleaned up enough to be able to reinstall a decent internet security program, I've narrowed it down to Panda, and one other which I can't remember the name of.

Once this chkdsk runs I'll update.

Thank you again - I will definitely be buying the pro version, this site, the software, everything - have impressed me so much.

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General Computer Support / Re: Running over 1 day?

« on: January 30, 2016, 11:16:49 am »

I seem to be stuck this entire day plus in Setting Owner (Administrators) first ...etc... And the process count seems to very slowly be dropping, now it's at 91.  It shows that 2791900 and climbing pretty quickly.

Help?

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General Computer Support / Running over 1 day?

« on: January 30, 2016, 11:03:07 am »

Thus far, this seems like the only program that will actually FIX my issues. 

That being said, I'm stuck on 2/9 in the newest repair version.

It's been more than 24 hours. 

Should I stop the program and reboot into safe mode, and start again?