my computer crashed

[rtil]

here's what happened

i ran spybot like i routinely do every once and a while yesterday. part of spybot's process is to back up the registry before doing anything, so it did.

everything seemed to be fine

i turn my computer back on last night to see that it reboots itself in an eternal loop while displaying a BSOD screen for a split second. i managed to take a video of it on my camera and read the message. it basically said my entire registry was screwed up, and that system32/config/SOFTWARE was corrupt. this is really, really bad. so, a friend gave me his old XP cd and told me we could restore the damaged files with the originals. this worked, but then i had a new problem. upon logging onto windows, it made a new admin account and gave me administrative access to nothing. i could open no software, do nothing in the control panel, change no permissions or do anything of use. the most i could do was open notepad or add and remove accounts with the same or less privileges as the new account. my old account was not an option to log in to. apparantly this happens a lot to people who have to restore system32 settings.

so i decided i'd reformat the drive in my old computer and install XP on it in order to save the years of work i've done on that other drive. so now i'll have 3 hard drives, one with just windows and apps on it, another with pretty much flash stuff, and another with everything i've gotten from torrents. of course, i have to re-install every piece of software i need today, and somehow get new product and activation keys for windows.

in conclusion, i'll probably not be online for another day or two. and spybot is a piece of shit

[psi43]

do the cops also think you stole your mother's car or something?

[Miro]

that'd be awful

[psi43]

lmao rtil:

From: freetown

[Necronomitr0n]

Ouch. My mom once fell for one of those free laptop offers you see all the time. Fucked things up BAD. The computer would restart all by itself for no reason. So we took it to the shop and the guy told us it had a ton of spyware and viruses on it. If you ever want to make my mom mad, just ask her "So, have you gotten your laptop yet?" It's funny.

[W.A.C.]

For spyware, I use Spybot and Ad-Aware. Should I try to use something different?

[Nadroj0711]

my computer had a headcrash a week or so before Christmas 2005, and I lost so much stuff
it sucked
hope you get yours fixed

[redmongoose]

I never used any spyware remover things or even really virus protection now its going to take me a longer time to find a good one

[W.A.C.]

I never used any spyware remover things or even really virus protection now its going to take me a longer time to find a good one

AVG is good for protecting against viruses. Try that.

[KingDavid]

basically the exact same thing happened to me in june

[rtil]

i use avira antivirus, and i used to use sygate firewall but i just decided to buy avira's premium suite since it was like 70% off for a 2nd year license. it comes with a firewall , remote guard and all kinds of things. you can basically control every thing you could think of that comes in and out of your computer

[psi43]

firewalls and stuff are for gays

[rtil]

and yes i'm sort of back online now, however is still need to reinstall a lot of software and get rid of this horrible green hills background

[davidmoore0]

my computer had a headcrash a week or so before Christmas 2005, and I lost so much stuff
it sucked
hope you get yours fixed

Wow. The exact same thing happened to me at the exact same time.

[Dagolith]

and yes i'm sort of back online now, however is still need to reinstall a lot of software and get rid of this horrible green hills background

fuck mutants.

[trent bortknob]

it wasnt christmas 2005 was it really

[W.A.C.]

firewalls and stuff are for gays

Firewalls are awesome.

[Necronomitr0n]

firewalls and stuff are for gays

Firewalls are awesome.

WAC must you conflict with everything that everyone says

[W.A.C.]

Sorry. >_>

[Nadroj0711]

it wasnt christmas 2005 was it really

yeah, pretty sure
it wasn't last year