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Juliet,

Noted. I appreciate you. Thanks :)
I agree with your comments, no wonder they call them "personal" computers...
Peoples computers are very personal to them.

Will read the articles....

Juliet,

Ok, I ead the articles. I wish I had time to go to the classed mentioned in your footer. Wow, to be able to learn this and be able to help other people get patched up would be very cool......

AAAAAAAaaack....just tootling along to stop working, closing programs, checking the last email, browser (firefox) open and I move mouse to close and WHAM a full blue screen that I have 'crashed' and...

Also, I've only installed two or three new programs since this all started, I will go back and see what they were and see what they do, and see if I really need them. It is hard to imagine that any...

Juliet, well, with all the precautions (I think) I take, it still irks me that there were still some found.
Are there any of these I can keep to run from time to time?

Also, I don't know if you...

Juliet,

Just after I ran services.msc, (performed your directions there) then checked that Malware Bytes had a log from 3am I could use.

Before I ran the MiniToolBox tool.

What, may I ask,...

Created three restore points :)

Results of Mini Tool Box...
MiniToolBox by Farbar Version: 17-06-2016
Ran by Owner (administrator) on 22-06-2018 at 11:35:02
Running from...

Errrr... I just tried to create a system restore point and it still says, "object not found"

Juliet, squeaky clean? :)


Emsisoft Emergency Kit - Version 2018.4
Last update: 6/21/2018 7:43:59 PM
User account: Owner-PC446\Owner
Computer name: OWNER-PC446
OS version: Windows 7x64...

running eek now...

computer is booting up three times faster and some of the quirky behavior has stopped. :)
Thanks for asking.

BTW, I have malware bytes installed, paid version that runs all...

Malware Bytes...
Malwarebytes
www.malwarebytes.com

-Log Details-
Scan Date: 6/21/18
Scan Time: 3:03 AM
Log File: a4963660-7529-11e8-a206-fcaa14e2776d.json
Administrator: Yes

Hello Juliet, Here are the logs from AdwCleaner and Rogue

# -------------------------------
# Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 7.2.0.0
# -------------------------------
# Build: 06-05-2018
#...

Juliet,

Ok, Disc Check was STILL running when I went to bed... almost finished, but not quite at 90% at midnight.

This is the log from tweaking.com program...
There were ten files in the work...

Juliet,

Sorry I've taken so long. Long busy weekend that extended into Monday.

I've done all but the Check Disc at Next Boot. Will be doing that when I can close this browser.

Also, you...

Hello :)

Before I do all this, I think I should let you know this detail.

I could not stop Volume Shadow Copy Service from services.msc because it was not started in the first place. I could...

Juliet,

I spoke too soon. It did not successfully create a manually created restore point, it gave an error...

"The restore point could not be created for the following reason...
The specified...

Hello Juliet, thank you for your quick response.

Disabling Avast didn't do a thing. (I had actually tried that already) I had also tried logging into Safe Mode to do it, but no joy.

I ran the...

Hello and Thank you in advance. My computer has started acting strange. When I open a folder, all folders inside are highlighted (not a biggie, but no usual) Many programs slowing down to open....

Blade thank you thank for the great follow up. I do, however, have to go out of town this afternoon and I don't think I am going to get this done before I have to leave...

Will this thread stay...

Blade,

I have many MANY saved emails in Thunderbird.... I will check out the ones they show... it freaked me out at first when so many started popping up at first, but when I got the report and...

The attach.txt...


DDS (Ver_09-12-01.01)

Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Install Date: 5/19/2008 11:01:06 AM
System Uptime: 2/18/2010 5:05:36 PM...

The DDS....


DDS (Ver_09-12-01.01) - NTFSx86
Run by JDA Publishing at 2:12:49.54 on Fri 02/19/2010
Internet Explorer: 8.0.6001.18882 BrowserJavaVersion: 1.6.0_18
Microsoft® Windows Vista™...

Okay, FINALLY! I got the scan results....

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KASPERSKY ONLINE SCANNER 7.0: scan report
Friday, February 19, 2010
...

Errrrrrrrrr. I HATE VISTA. I am having a difficult time turning off the stupid antivirus vista permissions have me running in circles. And every single time I try to scan @ Kaspersky it takes...

Blade,
Thanks! The system is running a little gummy, hanging sticking on stupid stuff, but since I networked a printer to this laptop, the hp web smart business has jacked my browser completely up....

This is the attach.txt


UNLESS SPECIFICALLY INSTRUCTED, DO NOT POST THIS LOG.
IF REQUESTED, ZIP IT UP & ATTACH IT

DDS (Ver_09-12-01.01)

Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Boot...

Thank you. I hope I don't have anything running that you told me to stop. I'm not sure what I could be running that is "script blocking"


DDS (Ver_09-12-01.01) - NTFSx86
Run by JDA Publishing...

My computer is running slower than usual. Windows explorer bogging down and timing out. From time to time, I review processes running and have gotten used to what I see... saw a new one today....