maycocksean
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I'm on my wife's laptop and I don't know what happened to our PC. I don't know if we got some kind of virus or what. It was working fine all day today--the power went off this evening and when I went to start the computer back up this evening after the power came back on, I got some strange Explorer EXE error boxes pop up and my aVast anti-virus had a red box that said my updating of my AVAST program was interrupted. And I couldn't get anything to happen. (Power goes out virtually everyday here so I don't think that was it. the comp has a battery back up and surge protector).
So I force-turned it off and turned it back on, only this time during the boot up I got a login box with a password option which I've never gotten before. I just pressed okay without typing a password and it continued booting up. Then when my wallpaper came up, I got another Explorer EXE error message. I pressed okay and after that nothing else would happen. I just had the wallpaper with no desktop icons or anything. I also noticed that there would be a split second where the entire screen would be red before the wallpaper came up, which I found very ominous as well. I restarted the computer three times and the same thing happened every time.
WHAT HAPPENED!!!? I'm really worried that my computer has been really damaged or something. It's especially annoying because I wrote a draft of a whole blog this afternoon and if I lose all my data I'll lose that (and my recent work on my novel--which I'm now grateful wasn't much). I am really freaking out!
can anyone who knows computer help me?
So I force-turned it off and turned it back on, only this time during the boot up I got a login box with a password option which I've never gotten before. I just pressed okay without typing a password and it continued booting up. Then when my wallpaper came up, I got another Explorer EXE error message. I pressed okay and after that nothing else would happen. I just had the wallpaper with no desktop icons or anything. I also noticed that there would be a split second where the entire screen would be red before the wallpaper came up, which I found very ominous as well. I restarted the computer three times and the same thing happened every time.
WHAT HAPPENED!!!? I'm really worried that my computer has been really damaged or something. It's especially annoying because I wrote a draft of a whole blog this afternoon and if I lose all my data I'll lose that (and my recent work on my novel--which I'm now grateful wasn't much). I am really freaking out!
can anyone who knows computer help me?