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scrnsaver stuck @ 3 min & System Restore is inop after EliteBar Tr
Posted by DumKoff on October 7th, 2005


Hi! I'm working on my neice's PC. She had a lot of Trojans and spyware
> infesting her PC. I have all the garbage removed now, but the screensaver is
> stuck on "3 minutes" and at "My Pictures Slideshow". Also "System Restore" is
> not working. When I select it, it says "System Restore is unable to protect
> your computer. Please restart your computer and then run system restore
> again." But of course I get the same message after a restart. Any ideas on
> how to get these programs running correctly? I am thinking that they might be
> registry settings screwed up. But if I try to start "system restore" from
> window explorer, it says something about a DLL file missing. Any help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave

Posted by DumKoff on October 11th, 2005


Hello All!

You may disregard the above message. MS had me remove SP2 at the
beginning of all these prob with trojans, in an attempt to repair windows,
which didn't help. After deciding to leave the PC like it was, I had to
re-install SP2. After doing that it wouldn't boot. So I had to wipe out the
hard drive and re-install the OS and origonal programs anyway. All's well
now, and it seems a LOT faster.

"DumKoff" wrote:

> Hi! I'm working on my neice's PC. She had a lot of Trojans and spyware
> > infesting her PC. I have all the garbage removed now, but the screensaver is
> > stuck on "3 minutes" and at "My Pictures Slideshow". Also "System Restore" is
> > not working. When I select it, it says "System Restore is unable to protect
> > your computer. Please restart your computer and then run system restore
> > again." But of course I get the same message after a restart. Any ideas on
> > how to get these programs running correctly? I am thinking that they might be
> > registry settings screwed up. But if I try to start "system restore" from
> > window explorer, it says something about a DLL file missing. Any help would
> > be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave


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