Windows Problem

[S1ght]

K, yesterday my windows started to act a lil funny, if I try go into any other hard drive besides C:, it brings the up the Open With box where I have to select explorer so I can view whats on the hard drive, if I right click on the drive it shows this

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=1676&cat=500

I tried scanning for viruses at which it found some and cleaned but the problem didn't go away so today i said screw it and reinstalled windows and still got the same problem on both my hdd's besides c:\

Any advice?

Thanx in advance
S1ght

 

[kronoSX]

did you first format thedrive when you reinstalled,or did you reinstall over the other windows.
Start safe mode and run the virus scan again

 

[S1ght]

I just installed over the old 1, oh well i got so fed up trying to fix it, i formatted and installed vista, seems to be fine now cept strangely when I boot it says it cant find a boot manager file or something but if I boot with the Vista DVD in, then it goes into windows fine....im beginning to hate microsoft

 

[kronoSX]

put the vista dvd in and let vista dvd fix the boot.Its all there in front of you when you boot with dvd

 

[bekdik]

Ypu need to change the default click actions for double click on disk and on file icons. A google should tell you how to change the registry

 

[///MoH]

1. Run Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or right click on Taskbar)
2. Stop wscript.exe process if available by highlighting the process name and clicking End Process.
3. Then terminate explorer.exe process.
4. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
5. Type “cmd” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
6. Type the following command one by one followed by hitting Enter key:

del c:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del d:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del e:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a

c, d, e each represents drive letters on Windows system. If there are more drives or partitions available, continue to command by altering to other drive letter. Note that you must also clean the autorun files from USB flash drive or portable hard disk as the external drive may also be infected.
7. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
8. Type “regedit” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
9. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi... NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
10. Check if the value name and value data for the key is correct (the value data of userint.exe include the path which may be different than C drive, which is also valid, note also the comma which is also needed):

“Userinit”=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit...

If the value is incorrent, modify it to the valid value data.

 

[S1ght]

All fixed, thanx guys

 

[kronoSX]

good one.

 

[ubercal]

Lol , all that work for something so simple


All u needed to do was remove the "autorun.inf" in the root of your c:\ file

 

[S1ght]

Wasn't like that ubercal, there wasn't any autorun.inf file but doesn't matter now, it works

 

[The_Techie]

I always distrust an autorun.inf file

 

[rph72]

1. Run Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del or right click on Taskbar)
2. Stop wscript.exe process if available by highlighting the process name and clicking End Process.
3. Then terminate explorer.exe process.
4. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
5. Type “cmd” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
6. Type the following command one by one followed by hitting Enter key:

del c:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del d:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a
del e:\autorun.* /f /s /q /a

c, d, e each represents drive letters on Windows system. If there are more drives or partitions available, continue to command by altering to other drive letter. Note that you must also clean the autorun files from USB flash drive or portable hard disk as the external drive may also be infected.
7. In Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run…).
8. Type “regedit” (without quotes) into the Open text box and click OK.
9. Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi... NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
10. Check if the value name and value data for the key is correct (the value data of userint.exe include the path which may be different than C drive, which is also valid, note also the comma which is also needed):

“Userinit”=”C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit...

If the value is incorrent, modify it to the valid value data.

Thank you, this seems to have sorted out my problem.

 

[.Froot.]

Thank you, this seems to have sorted out my problem.

I find Linux so much more simple

 

[S1ght]

bah, if you don't know what you're doing in linux, its waaaaaayy more complicated! linux/kubuntu has given me way more problems when i first started using it that windows has ever done

 

[HavocXphere]

Its not the autorun.inf thats the problem. Slightly technical, but here goes:

A portion of the registry is broken.

I suspect the key that is broken is this one:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Get someone with the same OS to upload an export of the Drive Key to somewhere and then apply it to you're PC.

There might be other keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that are broken too, but I'm to lazy to search for them. Use Process Monitor to determine whats broken.

 

[.Froot.]

bah, if you don't know what you're doing in linux, its waaaaaayy more complicated! linux/kubuntu has given me way more problems when i first started using it that windows has ever done

I've only ever had one major problem with my Linux- I broke xorg. Found out it wasn't too hard to fix and believe me I didn't know that much about Linux.

 

[S1ght]

1st attempt at kubuntu 7.10 - Try to install but screen just turns off (Fixed by making it nosplash)

2nd attempt - At the select hdd kubuntu tried to turn my entire hdd into swap space (took at least a full day to recover the hard drive since it lost the FAT thanks to this)

3rd attempt - Everything is fine, install nvidia driver and linux just failed (screen lines everywhere and different colours (I think I had to just reconfigure xserver,can't remember)

I suppose they are things that can be fixed but only with constantly reading online forums like that nosplash thing I would never have known unless I had read it online, things that I just prefer in windows are things like the windows installer, you download an install file,double click install, with linux its always download the file then make sure you have correct libraries, use the konsole to install and then maybe it'll try update while its there...