So many problems, i really hope you help

[mravioli]

after i got back from my tripto india i eagerly openned up my computer only to find the following problems:

My Creative zen sleekphoto 20gb is randomly not recognized by my computer

The speakers sometimes project sound that is much faster or none at all

Add or Remove programs shows no more programs

if i try to turn off my computer it tries to install updates but only sticks around at (1 of 12)

my computer no longer automatically creates system restore points

If i try to change my foreground and background colors in photoshop it becomes a color of black to gray instead of blue or something

upon startup it shows that it cannot find the file '

[P.Jovanovic]

Have someone other used that computer? Did you scan for viruses/trojans/worms/adware/spyware?
If someone used tih computer while you was apscent, did he deleted some files or instaled anything?

[mravioli]

nope

i scan my files daily through windows defender

no files were deleted although i might have actually done something

[P.Jovanovic]

Windows defender is not anti-virus, it is anti-spyware. Scan your computer with Kaspersky or Nod32, with newiest updates. You have free 30 day trial for both.

[nighthawk]

Try restoring to some previous restore point, although they are useless at most times.

You should definitely scan your PC wiht a good antivirus, but there are too many problems here. If antivirus does not help you will have to reinstall windows.

[mravioli]

yeah, i thought about reinstalling do u know how to place a backup of your windows on a storage site?

[nighthawk]

Storage site? What do you mean by that, some web storage or what? I guess you just upload your files.

You can back up your files on a DVD or something like that. You could use ntbackup (start->run->ntbackup) to help you with that (it can't burn files to dvd, but it creates one file that you can burn and restore it after you reinstall xp). You could easily back up your profile (c:\documents and settings\username) which contains all you settings, stored passwords, etc. and restore it, but first scan it for viruses.

[SGgomez81]

WOW, sounds like a bad virus!

[Tomi]

Well, i think we must all learn a lesson from this:

Some pie is nice and others are horrible.

oh

and... don't go to India and leave your laptop unattended.

[crazymanv06]

repair windows using the cd