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Btw, thanks for the attempt though...much appreciated.

Interesting and disturbing at the same time. IObit programs showing up everywhere in ShadowExplorer but not one hint of music. How does that happen? <--That's a rhetorical question. :-)

Alas...

'Tis official, IObit has been uninstalled. All 6 programs.

I would be so much more impressed if I hadn't lost all my music. :(

However, on a more positive note, everything else seems to be...

Ooh...we've had a win!
I've uninstalled the newly installed IObit ASC, and reinstalled the Driver Booster and then uninstalled that...and it DID!

So when I get time I will reinstall each IObit...

Nup. That didn't work. I now have two versions of everything. Oh Yay. lol

Error message when I try to uninstall:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\IObit\Advanced SystemCare8/unins))).msg" is missing....

Yep to the IObit question. Looks like I'm going to have to get a new copy of the programs to uninstall it...at least that's what the error message says when I do try to uninstall ANY of the IObit...

The program reported NO THREATS. I don't know if this is why there is no mbar-log.txt. At this point I'm suspecting so. However, here is the system log:


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All Clear. There were no logs and it didn't shut down afterwards. Just said 514 objects and the details said all were OK.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
www.malwarebytes.org

Scan Date: 1/02/2015
Scan Time: 9:26:00 PM
Logfile:
Administrator: Yes

Version: 2.00.4.1028
Malware Database: v2015.02.01.03

# AdwCleaner v4.109 - Report created 31/01/2015 at 11:36:04
# Updated 24/01/2015 by Xplode
# Database : 2015-01-26.1 [Live]
# Operating System : Windows 8.1 (64 bits)
# Username : Anns - ANN
#...

Requested Logs. :-)

Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST.txt) (x64) Version: 01-02-2015
Ran by Anns (administrator) on ANN on 01-02-2015 10:25:30
Running from C:\Users\Anns\Desktop...

System restore: Completed, but now I have seemingly got all the IObit stuff back as startup brought several messages that "Smart Defrag" can't run due to missing files. However, when I try to...

Hmmm. Things aren't looking so grand. I do have a "fixlog" but when I try to open it to copy etc, it opens the Farbar download (the initial download where it asks permission). All the logs on my...

Btw, the computer is much improved. :D:
Thank you.

So I'm a little confused as to exactly what I was supposed to do but hopefully I've done this correctly. If it isn't what you wanted just let me know.

Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool...

Additional scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (x64) Version: 28-01-2015
Ran by Anns at 2015-01-31 15:11:03
Running from C:\Users\Anns\Desktop
Boot Mode: Normal...

Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST.txt) (x64) Version: 28-01-2015
Ran by Anns (administrator) on ANN on 31-01-2015 15:10:22
Running from C:\Users\Anns\Desktop
Loaded Profiles: Anns...

After some thought, figured running it wasn't going to do any harm...I hoped.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
www.malwarebytes.org

Scan Date: 31/01/2015
Scan Time: 12:05:23 PM
Logfile: ...

Malawarebytes Anti-Malware does not allow their "Advanced" settings to be changed. Is this due to it being a free version? Although none of the Advanced Settings can be changed (they are not...

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Junkware Removal Tool (JRT) by Thisisu
Version: 6.4.1 (12.28.2014:1)
OS: Windows 8.1 x64
Ran by Anns on Sat 31/01/2015 at 11:42:44.12...

# AdwCleaner v4.109 - Report created 31/01/2015 at 11:36:04
# Updated 24/01/2015 by Xplode
# Database : 2015-01-26.1 [Live]
# Operating System : Windows 8.1 (64 bits)
# Username : Anns - ANN
#...

ALL IObit has been uninstalled. This was quite extensive as there was the IObit Malware program, and IObit uninstaller. In addition there were other programs by IObit such as Advanced System Care,...

Have downloaded and run Appremover but it hasn't detected IObit. It has listed:

Spybot
Malwarebytes- Anti Malware
AVG
McAfee Siteadvisor

Where to from here?

Thanks Ken, that worked a treat. All folders, documents, themes, bookmarks etc are back to normal.

For the next step? Am I to uninstall all the IObit?

Your help is much appreciated. :)

It could be an update, but the last update I was aware of was the AVG update. That's not to say Windows didn't update as well.

No, no system restore was attempted either before this occurred or...

Opened computer and got the message "Preparing" as though updates were processing when the computer finally started (it took several minutes) the Theme had been changed and many shortcuts had...