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    System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Hello
    I've got Win Vista Home Premium SP1. Up until recently, when i chose System Restore it came up with a calander-like window and then i was able to choose the day i wanted my sistem restored to. Then a few days ago I experienced a crash, and it took my pc a while to check my disk (the only one, since it's a laptop).
    That's the checking:

    Then i manged to enter Vista again, and i thought i'd just restore again, hoping nothing was wrong. And when i clicked System Restore it took absolutely AGES to open (the rest of the stuff worked/s well...) and when it eventually opened i got that:

    And now, if i choose "Choose a different restore point", i get this:


    Where has the calender gone? Where are my previous restore points??? What's wrong?
    Then, yesterday i was checking bbc's webpage and i came across this article: Click
    Do you think it's that virus? Please help.

    Cheers!


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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Those screens look normal. Did you have manually created restore points that are missing?

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    No. And also, why can't i see the calendar anymore?

    Every now and then i get also such Blue screen:

    The pic is taken from the internet and i'm not 100% sure that's what it says on my laptop because it appears for just a sec, and then the computer restarts.
    Why is this Blues Screen happening??

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trgovec View Post
    No. And also, why can't i see the calendar anymore?

    Every now and then i get also such Blue screen:

    The pic is taken from the internet and i'm not 100% sure that's what it says on my laptop because it appears for just a sec, and then the computer restarts.
    Why is this Blues Screen happening??
    can you take a picture of your own blue screen? it is essential to find the error code so we can find the problem and resolve this issue.

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    I noticed you have Uniblue Driverscanner installed - "automatically updating drivers" Let us hope it does not make mistakes then -and that it works flawlessly with System Restore points. If not you could be seeing bsod. Would most likely be better if you let Windows Update take care of this, and hunt down the few 3rd party drivers it does not include and computer really need.

    You really paid 30$ for such a service?

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Quote Originally Posted by MrNeeds View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Trgovec View Post
    No. And also, why can't i see the calendar anymore?

    Every now and then i get also such Blue screen:

    The pic is taken from the internet and i'm not 100% sure that's what it says on my laptop because it appears for just a sec, and then the computer restarts.
    Why is this Blues Screen happening??
    can you take a picture of your own blue screen? it is essential to find the error code so we can find the problem and resolve this issue.
    I know... but that's quite hard sice it appears for just a second and it seems it doesn't crash on a regular basis... Sometimes for example while i'm working ony my laptop and sometimes when it's just running without me using it. I've been getting those blue screen every now and then, but untill a few days ago (maybe you're right dk70) untill i tried to install a package from Uniblue all crashes hadn't caused any harm, excet from losing some of the settings i had previusly created or set...
    I actually havent used that driverscanner thing properly yet - the only thing i installed was that sound driver HD sth...
    Shall i uninstall the whole package then? On their homepage they're saying they're compatibile with Windows and they've got some awards from Microsoft so i thought it must be useful.

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Possible driver scanner is not the only or first problem.

    Dont get used to crashes and system restore points. Could be virus/malware, bad driver/programs. Hard to guess.

    May be Driver Scanner is compatible, have won gold medals, but the whole idea of managing drivers for Admin/you is just wrong. Seems like asking for trouble or suffering from extreme lazyness

    If you cant catch bsod then look in Event Viewer. If problem is hardware based like bad memory it might not be in there - and stop code probably wrong anyway. May be you should make a Hijackthis log for now if not certain what is up and down. There is a better tool available btw, called RSIT but I dont know if this forum have rules for reporting. Some are rigid with this. It will automatically download Hijackthis if not installed, run hjt and then add some info like eventviewer, scheduler, files/folders created last 30 days. Google "random system information tool" including quotes. When done you have a new folder c:\rsit with 2 log files, upload.

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Thank you so much for being so kind and writing all that for me. I'm not really good at computers so please don't get frustrated if i ask sth stupid
    First of all, about the Event Viewer. I've opened, but what now? where should i look for the report about my BSOD?

    I've uploaded the files.... Hope you'll find sth - i clearly dont
    Thanks agian


    Btw, i'm not sure if i stressed that out, but i've been getting BSOD ever since i got my laptop, but the serious change (with system restore and all that checking) has accured after i'd tired to install Frame Work 3.5 which was requested for that Uniblue package to work (to be more precise, Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2009 requested that). Hope that helps

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Quote Originally Posted by Trgovec View Post
    Thank you so much for being so kind and writing all that for me. I'm not really good at computers so please don't get frustrated if i ask sth stupid
    First of all, about the Event Viewer. I've opened, but what now? where should i look for the report about my BSOD?

    I've uploaded the files.... Hope you'll find sth - i clearly dont
    Thanks agian


    Btw, i'm not sure if i stressed that out, but i've been getting BSOD ever since i got my laptop, but the serious change (with system restore and all that checking) has accured after i'd tired to install Frame Work 3.5 which was requested for that Uniblue package to work (to be more precise, Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC 2009 requested that). Hope that helps
    to get a longer view of your BSOD, simply right click computer>on the left, click on advanced system settings> advanced tab> startup and recovery settings and in there it should look like image attached, simply uncheck automatically restart, this will keep the BSOD up forever until you hold in the power button on your computer, and after it blue screens, take a pic and upload here and dont forget to change the automatically restart option again or it will never restart if it blue screens

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    Re: System Restore + Blue screen = Virus?

    Thank you loads for that one !
    can't wait to see my next Blue Screen :P

    Btw, i see there is a tick at "Write an event to the system log" Where is that written?
    Is that what dk70 requested? dk70, have you been able to work it out what's wrong with my computer?

    I'd also like to ask again whether anyone has got a clue why i can't have a calendar in "system restore" anymore.

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