Internet explorer running in background

Press F10 after powering up the machine, which should bring up an 'Edit Boot Options' screen.
If it shows either of the following:

[ /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /MININT
[ /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN IN/MINT

hit backspace to remove them, leaving only the /noexecute=optin, then press Enter to continue and see if it starts normally.
 
Hiya,

Well, Windows appears to be running perfectly fine! I have re-downloaded firefox and have had no search redirections or any other problems. Internet explorer is no longer running in the background and computer runs fairly speedily.
My only concern is that rundll32.exe is running three times, (2 without username or description) in task manager. I have tried googling it and can't understand whether this is suppose to be there or not!

Apart from that everything seems to be back to normal!

Thank you so much for spending so much time helping me.

Tanith
 
Hi,

My only concern is that rundll32.exe is running three times, (2 without username or description) in task manager.
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Those are pretty likely ok if the system is running without issues (those with no username prolly get shown when you click "show processes from all users" in task manager).

Have you rebooted? Still running ok?
 
I rebooted and it wouldn't turn on, but then when I pressed f10 and deleted the extra bit it worked fine again.

Any ideas?

Tan
 
Hi,

We need to do some editing there and for that access to Windows recovery environment is needed.

Let's create a system repair disc. You'll need an empty cd for that.

1. Open Backup and Restore by clicking Start->Control Panel->System and Maintenance->Backup and Restore.

2. In the left pane, click Create a system repair disc, and then follow the steps. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Let me know when you have the disc created.
 
Hiya,

I have created a system repair disc as prompted. My computer did a strange thing however, when I tried to eject the disc (the x pud one) and the shortcut on my keyboard wouldn't work and I had to go to my computer. When it then ejected it asked me to insert something into drive d and this wouldn't go away until I inserted the disc ready for system repair. Didn't seem to cause any problems but did seem a little strange.

Anyway have created the system repair disc and am
Ready to go!

Tan
 
Hi,

Reboot the system with the created cd.
Set input layout and other settings and then click next.
Use "repair your computer" option and select your Windows installation on the following screen.
Select Command prompt on choose a recovery tool screen.
Type the following commands there (let me know if any of them fails and error message):
Code: 
bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd

When done type exit to close command prompt. See if system boots ok now.
 
Hi,

Cd boot said that the directory didn't exist,

The next two actions said that the file BCD doesn't exist.

The first and last commands said that they ran correctly.

I tried restarting the computer but no difference I'm afraid. Thanks for your help.

Tan
 
Hi,

Please type these commands in command prompt in the Windows recovery cd:
cd /d c:\
dir

See if Windows directory is listed there. If not type these commands to see if the directory is listed this time:
cd /d d:\
dir
 
Hi,

Try bootrec /RebuildBcd command in recovery environment's C: drive.
 
Hi,

doing bootrec /RebuildBcd returns

"Successfully scanned windows installations.
Total identified windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully."

Thanks
Tan
 
Hi,

When you run dir command in recovery environment in c: drive does it list these folders:
-Users
-ComboFix

If not then c: drive in RE is not likely the c: drive in normal mode. You need to find what drive in RE has those above listed folders and run bootrec /RebuildBcd there.
 
Hi,

Please download a fresh copy of TDSSKiller and run it:

1. Download TDSSKiller and extract its contents into a folder in desired location (i.e. c:\tdsskiller).
2. Execute the file TDSSKiller.exe.
3. Click Start Scan. If threats are found, select cure and click Continue (tool may prompt for a reboot).
4. Post back contents of log file in c: drive root (name should be in UtilityName.Version_Date_Time_log.txt format)
 
Hi,

Reboot back into xPUD, select File and navigate to mnt>sda2>Boot right click BCD file there and select copy now navigate to your usb memory stick (likely mnt>sdb1) right-click empty space there and select paste to copy BCD file to the stick.

Reboot back into Windows and archive copied BCD file to a zip file. Then navigate here and follow instructions to upload the zipped BCD. Let me know when that's done.
 
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