prometheus92
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Hi, I'm new to the forums.
Today I was downloading some files off of the internet, from a site (deleted), if any of you are familiar with. So I downloaded a pretty big file, and I go to extract it. It puts it in a temporary folder. Since I can't find the folder, I put it in someplace else. All the while, I keep getting asked for registry changes such as Broswer Helper Object and Winlogon (something). I denied both of them, since I feared this was some sort of virus. All of my programs were working normally and then BLAM! My entire desktop is gone. The start bar, all of the icons, but only the background remains. When you minimize an object, it just goes down into the bottom left corner, which looks something like just the toolbar of the application. I used the Alt+Cntrl+Dlt key and all of the processes were working fine. According to it, all of my files and stuff were still there! Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I am posting this from another computer and I already restarted the other one, with the same result. There is also a file i previously didn't know about: wuauclt.exe, which hogs up a lot of memory. My svchost.exe is also taking up more memory than usual
Help! Thanks,
Prometheus92
Today I was downloading some files off of the internet, from a site (deleted), if any of you are familiar with. So I downloaded a pretty big file, and I go to extract it. It puts it in a temporary folder. Since I can't find the folder, I put it in someplace else. All the while, I keep getting asked for registry changes such as Broswer Helper Object and Winlogon (something). I denied both of them, since I feared this was some sort of virus. All of my programs were working normally and then BLAM! My entire desktop is gone. The start bar, all of the icons, but only the background remains. When you minimize an object, it just goes down into the bottom left corner, which looks something like just the toolbar of the application. I used the Alt+Cntrl+Dlt key and all of the processes were working fine. According to it, all of my files and stuff were still there! Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I am posting this from another computer and I already restarted the other one, with the same result. There is also a file i previously didn't know about: wuauclt.exe, which hogs up a lot of memory. My svchost.exe is also taking up more memory than usual
Help! Thanks,
Prometheus92
