gg8357
2008-10-23, 07:08
First let me say I am far from what you'd call a pc geek, so please bear with me when I try to explain what is happening on my puter.
I am unable to access almost all my programs including explorer, ms word even my spybot I can not open. It's like they all disappeared. Here is what happened that I think may be the cause?
For some reason when I shut down my computer and turned it back on the next day spybot kept popping up asking me to deny or allow changes, very many popups came up so it looked very suspicious. there were so many I wasn't even sure what I was denying or allowing. :oops:(told ya I was no pc geek!)
The result is I lost almost everything. Even the icon that tells me if I have a connection is gone. Luckily firefox windows gave me the option to "restore session" as they "closed unexpectedly" So I am working off the firefox browser. But if I try to open new windows even in firefox it wont let me. I am afraid to shut down my computer as I might not even get the firefox browser back.
So, my question is: can I restore what spybot denied? I tried to open spybot icon and that access is denied also.
If I download a new spybot and start over will it recognize and let me restore the old settings?
I even tried system restore to go back to my old settings But windows 2000 doesn't have system restore.
I explained the best I could what is going on, I hope you can make heads or tails out of it, PLEASE HELP
Thanks in advance
gg
I am unable to access almost all my programs including explorer, ms word even my spybot I can not open. It's like they all disappeared. Here is what happened that I think may be the cause?
For some reason when I shut down my computer and turned it back on the next day spybot kept popping up asking me to deny or allow changes, very many popups came up so it looked very suspicious. there were so many I wasn't even sure what I was denying or allowing. :oops:(told ya I was no pc geek!)
The result is I lost almost everything. Even the icon that tells me if I have a connection is gone. Luckily firefox windows gave me the option to "restore session" as they "closed unexpectedly" So I am working off the firefox browser. But if I try to open new windows even in firefox it wont let me. I am afraid to shut down my computer as I might not even get the firefox browser back.
So, my question is: can I restore what spybot denied? I tried to open spybot icon and that access is denied also.
If I download a new spybot and start over will it recognize and let me restore the old settings?
I even tried system restore to go back to my old settings But windows 2000 doesn't have system restore.
I explained the best I could what is going on, I hope you can make heads or tails out of it, PLEASE HELP
Thanks in advance
gg