Grader4me
Senior Member
I'm having problems with my Daughters laptop. I'm not sure if she picked up a virus or there is something wrong with the hard drive. Sometimes when I boot up a black background shows and it does a scan on the disks. It says "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency(NTFS drivers). It goes through the scan then says "receiving orphaned file WMIA DAF.ex.
Once it goes through that it will finish booting up and everything looks normal...until I try to open a program etc..then it freezes up. It won't let me do a system restore..as a blue screen will appear and tells me windows is being shut down automatically to prevent harm to the computor..then shuts down. I tried to do a virus scan and it will freeze up within a few seconds (same as any of the programs I try to open)
I tried to do a system restore and a virus scan in "safe mode" but the same thing happened. I also tried going to the "add remove programs" to remove any unwanted prgrams, but it wouldn't work either..freezes up
This laptop has windows vista.
Help!!
On edit..should mention that it appears to be continually loading all the time as the loading icon is spinning (doesn't stop) when opening a program.
Once it goes through that it will finish booting up and everything looks normal...until I try to open a program etc..then it freezes up. It won't let me do a system restore..as a blue screen will appear and tells me windows is being shut down automatically to prevent harm to the computor..then shuts down. I tried to do a virus scan and it will freeze up within a few seconds (same as any of the programs I try to open)
I tried to do a system restore and a virus scan in "safe mode" but the same thing happened. I also tried going to the "add remove programs" to remove any unwanted prgrams, but it wouldn't work either..freezes up
This laptop has windows vista.
Help!!
On edit..should mention that it appears to be continually loading all the time as the loading icon is spinning (doesn't stop) when opening a program.
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