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Curt:
Today a girlfriend came with her laptop and said, "I thought I was opening a picture my son had emailed me, and suddenly all these things and flares came up...". Sigh!

Luckily, "all" I had to do was to tell (Vista) System Restore to do its job. [Edited: and here I forgot to tell that F8 did not do anything!] However, this turned out to be really really difficult, almost impossible! The pop-us were blocking my every attempt to do anything. I literally clicked "no" and "yes" almost a thousand times before I somehow finally managed to start System Restore.

This leads me to my simple question: Why on earth must I start an infected system, in order to start a blocked program, in order to clean the infected system? To me, this is far too much Catch 22: "If your system is blocked, open your system and use System Restore. If System Restore is blocked, use System Restore" - a no-win situation! Why isn't System Restore placed next to Log-in??? Is there a reasonable explanation to this? Or is it that everybody involved are imcomp... ehh (edited, due to peace, love and understanding): ...or is it that no one involved could imagine this situation?

Why is System Restore not placed the proper place? Or is it? Where is the proper place for System Restore? Next to Log-in?
:tellme:

4wd:
Press F8 and either try:

a) Last Known Good working state (or something like that), or
b) Boot to Command Line and run System Restore, (%systemroot%/system32/restore/rstui.exe - for XP).

Or:

c) Windows 7 has a System Recovery disc that you created after installing W7....right?, or
d) Restore from your periodic backup, or
e) Boot from a PE, (WinPE/BartPE), disc to repair the problem, or
f) Download a anti-virus LiveCD to try and repair, (eg. CureIt).

Booting from Windows installations discs will also give you recovery options, (eg. XP->Repair Console from which you can manually copy the registry from a backup).

Personally, I'm glad System Restore isn't easy to get to because of the few times I've used it, it's always FUBAR'd my system so that I've had to reinstall anyway.

Why isn't System Restore placed next to Log-in???
-Curt (January 23, 2011, 04:59 PM)
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I can just imagine this:

"I was logging into my computer but because I wasn't fully loaded on caffeine yet I hit the wrong button and now my system is FUBAR."

Curt:
-no, no and no!!! F8 was in the old days! It is not like this any more! My computer from Siemens and her computer from Dell does not respond to F8. Oh, why didn't I think to tell this in the initial post. There are millions, no zillions of computers that does not do anything at all on F8.

Curt:
Didn't my first line state that it was a lady who couldn't tell a picture from a program? Please don't tell about a hundred useless solutions! I actually updated her Vista to SP2, if you know what I mean.

4wd:
-no, no and no!!! F8 was in the old days!-Curt (January 23, 2011, 05:25 PM)
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It's not actually, taken from the F8 screen on my Win7HP computer less than 5 minutes ago:



Didn't my first line state that it was a lady who couldn't tell a picture from a program? Please don't tell about a hundred useless solutions! I actually updated her Vista to SP2, if you know what I mean.
-Curt (January 23, 2011, 05:31 PM)
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And, no you said:
Today a girlfriend came with her laptop and said, "I thought I was opening a picture my son had emailed me, and suddenly all these things and flares came up...". Sigh!
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At no point did you say it was an executable, (it could has been a link to a website or something else), and also at no point did you say what OS she was running until the last post.

EDIT: Sorry, you did mention Vista in the first post - I missed it, apologies.  :-[

Still the answers I gave are valid in the context of the thread, (except for the XP one).

And:
This leads me to my simple question: Why on earth must I start an infected system, in order to start a blocked program, in order to clean the infected system?-Curt (January 23, 2011, 04:59 PM)
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My answers c->f give you the option of not booting the infected OS.  Plus you can still boot from a Windows installation disc into recovery options.

Also, BTW, the main reason I've found for computers not responding to F8 is because people aren't fast enough to push the key or don't at the right moment.  Also W7, (and possibly Vista) no longer blatantly advertise it's presense as XP did.

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