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windows disk cleanup removed the standard things....plus the windows error reports. And it was removing those when the weird things started to happen to my explorer.
I did a system restore after that happened. I restored it to a restorepoint which was made yesterday.
I'm now running a virus scan (AVG) and I'm also running sfc /scannow
if neither shows anything, I think I shall try a startup repair with my windows disk.
Though to be honest, I think something simply went wrong with the disk cleanup, and it started deleting my profile and personal settings. I have no clue if windows automatically makes a backup of these.
virusscan showed nothing.
After my system restore I have now managed to get my explorer favourites back.
What I forgot to mention was that all my programs disappeared from the start menu as well, though after the restore they have also returned.
Firefox still won't start though. Doesn't even appear in the list of processes.
for some reason there's TrustedInstaller.exe, which takes 20 to 50% of my CPU and about 20 MB of RAM....while I'm not conscious of installing anything. I have NO idea what this is.
Is it safe for me to end this proces?
sfc /scannow created a very very long log file. On screen it said it couldn't repair everything. However, the last line in the log file it says that all the files listed were repaired. I so don't understand this anymore. I'm going to try the startup repair with my windows disk. I seriously hope that works. |