I know many have seen this before. It has been occurring so much that my PC is nearly unusable. I tried scanning the system through Command Prompt but not all of the corrupt files were fixed. Windows Explorer still fails constantly. Is there any other solution? | |||||||||
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If you think corruption is the issue, you can run disk check through command prompt. Open task manager, go to: file, run, type in cmd, in the new window type chkdsk C: /F. The flag /F will attempt to fix errors, you can also use /R to attempt to recover missing data. (chkdsk C: /F /R). (more about disk check) And obviously, you will want to scan your harddrive. I would try Avast! and AVG, both have a free edition. Last time I used Avast, they had a boot time scan... That will probably help if your computer gives you problems during the scan. There are definitely other antivirus' out there, too. | |||
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Enter Safe Mode then run both virus and spyware/malware scans to clean the system.
Assuming you are using XP, boot to your Windows CD and run the recovery console. Then run CHKDSK C: /F to run the scan. Here are instructions how to do that. You may also want to run the System File Checker to fix any corrupted files. Use the /scannow switch. If you still can not use the PC, it is likely time to reinstall Windows. | |||
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