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Recent content by Rusty Rusty

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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    WOW! SUCCESS!! THAT ALL-IN-ONE TOOL REPAIRED the Start menu and Cortana difficulty completely! I am exhilarated! I am ever so grateful too! You have my donations; you have my undying gratitude. Well done, Malnutrtion !!!
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Obviously my posts were from a different household computer while chkdsk dominated this one.) Sure I knew. But I ran qshelf98 and under its Options failed to see a checkbox for it to start automatically with Windows. Being somewhat reliant on that Microsoft Reference package over the course of...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Say, is there any way to abort chkdsk once begun? Here is why I ask. It started and shows a progress animation as well as progress reporting. Within a few short minutes it said it had completed 10% (scan+repair). I thought, "Great!". But after 15 more minutes no change. Of course the drive is...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    I've deleted TFX.exe. I am never ever using that tool again - not under any circumstances!!!! It's STUPID! It messes up everything and fails to give ANY kind of legible messages as to what it is doing or what progress it is making or when/whether it is finished. NEVER again! NEVER!!!! Despite...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    ok I'll work on the tasks you outlined
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Last but not least here is the HijackThis log attached. But I have more to say. I rebooted and the problem persists but it is still rather minor. I cannot utilize Cortana regardless of how I elect it to appear on the Taskbar. And it won't launch when clicked on in the Start menu pane to which it...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Regarding SecurityCheck, the log is attached SecurityCheck by glax24 & Severnyj v.1.4.0.53 [27.10.17] WebSite: www.safezone.cc DateLog: 13.07.2019 06:23:44 Path starting: C:\Users\talk2\AppData\Local\Temp\SecurityCheck\SecurityCheck.exe Log directory: C:\SecurityCheck\ IsAdmin: True User...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Regarding ZHPFix, it chose to uninstall a few things. Here is the report attached.
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Ok, ZHP cleaner left two text files on desktop (likely some redundancy), both are attached. And I'll take this opportunity to remind you that if you tell a forum user to download special software that Defender might object to (for its intent to poke and prod much) that it might become necessary...
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    BTW I am getting the forum's push notifications successfully.
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Yeah that ZHP software deked me out! Apparently it was waiting for me to X-close its "browser" window ad; for when I closed that, then it announced "reporting finished". He-he - nasty!
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    Solved My Windows 10 system seems infested with something odd

    Thanks for the heads-up Malnutrition. I think ZHP was finished writing log 18 minutes ago, when the file was created/mod'd, as it is NOT increasing in size, so here it is attached