Can't open any programs after a minute of turning on.

Laser man · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:49

Pretty much the title.

Something happened to my machine today and everything slowed down, a lot. All my themes then changed. This all happened while I was trying to download a new theme for W7, but it wasn't working properly.

I then restored my machine back to when it was working fine, but now I can only open programs for about 1 minute after I've pressed the on-button. After that I can only use in-built features of W7 and use programs I've already opened.

This is really starting to annoy me so if anyone has any ideas please share, I've checked for Malware but Malware Bytes says I have none. Please help,

Kind Regards,
Laser man

Laser man · 29 Apr 2011 at 21:22

Is there anywhere else I could post this, as it's really annoying me and I can't figure it out at all

kPATm · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:49

Check task manager and see if any progs are eating resources

Makhaira · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:55

Have a look at a HiJack this log from within the 60 seconds, and then from after it.

Also, when you say you can't launch programs, what happens exactly? Is it absolutely nothing, or do you get an error/crash?

Laser man · 30 Apr 2011 at 13:25

Makhaira said:
Have a look at a HiJack this log from within the 60 seconds, and then from after it.

Also, when you say you can't launch programs, what happens exactly? Is it absolutely nothing, or do you get an error/crash?

It just goes to the loading cursor for a while then stops. If I go onto Task Manager and processes it shows me that they're running, but only using 104k memory and usually 0% CPU

kPATm · 30 Apr 2011 at 17:18

Does sound like a virus of some sort. Have you tried doing a scan?

EdwardTeach · 30 Apr 2011 at 19:31

I had a similar Problem after updating to w7 service pack 1. For me it was not virus related, as far as I know.

I ended up doing a clean re-install.

Laser man · 2 May 2011 at 18:41

kPATm said:
Does sound like a virus of some sort. Have you tried doing a scan?

Yeh, I've done a scan and it didn't show anything. Whatever it is has come back after I did a second full restore, any ideas? It's taking the **** a bit now

Laser man · 2 May 2011 at 18:58

Delete. Double post.

Philtor · 2 May 2011 at 19:33

Run the system file checker by opening a command prompt as an Admin and typing sfc /scannow and hitting enter. When finished restart.

Laser man · 2 May 2011 at 20:49

philtorrens said:
Run the system file checker by opening a command prompt as an Admin and typing sfc /scannow and hitting enter. When finished restart.

Done. It said:
"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations"

Any more ideas?

Philtor · 2 May 2011 at 22:27

You could try creating a new profile to see if the same problem keeps happening. Im wondering if your profile has been corrupted perhaps.

ns400r · 2 May 2011 at 23:11

I'd have formatted long ago if the problem was bugging me and I couldn't find a quick remedy.

chrisarm · 2 May 2011 at 23:31

I make a 100gb partition on all my hard drives for windows so if I start to have problems I just flatten it and re install windows, it can be a pain to re install all your games but if it is running that bad they probably not workin anyway.

Laser man · 3 May 2011 at 18:00

I have an SSD with my OS on and the rest is on an F3, should I just format the SSD and re-install?

Cliste · 4 May 2011 at 01:30

Sounds like an infection I had before.
Download this and run it in safe mode.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Laser man · 6 May 2011 at 20:00

Cliste said:
Sounds like an infection I had before.
Download this and run it in safe mode.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Yeah, I'd already run that a few times, but the whole thing has mysteriously gone now.

I created a new account which worked, then it got messed up to and now they're both fine :confused:

Ah, the pains of custom PC's!

Cycrow · 6 May 2011 at 20:40

if it happens again, u could try running msconfig, then see what programs are set to run at start up

preventing them from being started might fix the problem, then u'll know what program is at fault

its not nessesarily a virus thou