I am in dire need of assistance with my laptop. i am having problems starting up win dows. it gives me a black screen with the error message that windows was unable to start. a recent hardware or doftware change might be the cause. the options to launch startup repair or star windows normally are the choices. i have tried the startup repair to no avail. I have tried to boot in all safe modes and it will not boot up. as a last case scenario i tried to do a system restore to an earlier point but i get no where with that cause when i click on the last date to restore from i get a message that the drive is Local Disk (C:)(system) and the status says: you must enable system protection on this drive. so i cannot even take that route. it also has a yellow caution sign that says: you must always restore the drive that contains windows. restoring other drives is optional. before i had this problem i believe a virus attacked the computer. i ran a test and several threats were shown to have been removed. please help with this cause i have very important football and pole vaulting videos of my sons on here that cannot be lost. please, oh please someone help me out.
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Jump to PostGo to Malwarebytes.com and SuperAntispyware and download their free programs and do a scan. these are two of the best anti spyware programs that i know of. Mircosoft used SuperAntispyware on a computer …
Jump to Postvery good suggestions i was going to suggest something else but will wait to see …
Jump to PostI use Mircosoft's Security Essentials as my primary antivirus and keep Malwarebytes and Superantispyware as backup security programs. They are all free and do fairly well protecting my computer.MSE runs a scan every night(if I leave the computer on) and about twice a month I run the other two just …
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Reboot your computer. While it is booting continually depress f8 or whatever key gives you the boot options. Do not start in Normal mode since it may very well be a corrupt driver that is preventing you from accessing your computer, instead boot into SAFE mode. Once there …
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