Hi,
I'm getting funny behaviour from my notebook.
It's a windows 7 64bits, I think without SP1 (not sure, because probably the registry is "lying": read ahead).
tl;dr: it appears as if the "start-up repair" has restored a registry from 2014; I hope it is fixable.
Recently, I could only start the PC in safe mode because in normal mode it was getting stuck at the splash screen, right after having inserted the password (same behaviour for both the two user profiles on my machine).
Since a clean shutdown was also impossible (the machine would be stuck at the "turning off" splash screen), I had to turn it off lots of times, by long-pressing the power button, until at some point windows was complaining that a registry file could not be loaded.
Then, by turning off and on once again, finally the restore screen came up and performed a start-up repair.
Although after that the system have been booting in normal mode, the devices panel contained a lots of devices with an exclamation marks:
I've removed all those I manage to (more on that in a bit) and reinstalled all the drivers, until I finally got to a decent point (i.e.: video adapter working, wi-fi card connecting to the network, etc.).
At this stage, though, I've noticed that
1. my antivirus (Kaspersky) crashes when I open it (and it doesn't start automatically);
2. Although I am connected to the network (it doesn't matter whether via WiFi or LAN), Internet doesn't work;
3. While trying to remove/reinstall Kaspersky, I've noticed that in fact Kaspersky is not present in the list of installed applications while Avira (the AV I used to have up to 2014 when I've switched to Kaspersky) is... Remember that I cannot remove some peripherals? Well, they are Avira's network peripherals... Obviously, Avira is not installed anymore since 2014...
4. at the start-up I keep seeing the list of files being loaded, like you see when loading in safe mode, although it is working in normal mode.
5. some apps (e.g.: comodo icedragon browser) also do not start.
6. sfc /scannow reports files that cannot be repaired.
So, my impression is that the "start-up repair" process has somehow resuscitated a really old registry files... Unfortunately, I do not have any restore point nor restore disk. My only hope is that somewhere I still have a more recent copy of the registry: would it be possible?
Any advice? Would installing the SP1 fix the files that SFC cannot fix?
Thanks in advance
Bests
I'm getting funny behaviour from my notebook.
It's a windows 7 64bits, I think without SP1 (not sure, because probably the registry is "lying": read ahead).
tl;dr: it appears as if the "start-up repair" has restored a registry from 2014; I hope it is fixable.
Recently, I could only start the PC in safe mode because in normal mode it was getting stuck at the splash screen, right after having inserted the password (same behaviour for both the two user profiles on my machine).
Since a clean shutdown was also impossible (the machine would be stuck at the "turning off" splash screen), I had to turn it off lots of times, by long-pressing the power button, until at some point windows was complaining that a registry file could not be loaded.
Then, by turning off and on once again, finally the restore screen came up and performed a start-up repair.
Although after that the system have been booting in normal mode, the devices panel contained a lots of devices with an exclamation marks:
I've removed all those I manage to (more on that in a bit) and reinstalled all the drivers, until I finally got to a decent point (i.e.: video adapter working, wi-fi card connecting to the network, etc.).
At this stage, though, I've noticed that
1. my antivirus (Kaspersky) crashes when I open it (and it doesn't start automatically);
2. Although I am connected to the network (it doesn't matter whether via WiFi or LAN), Internet doesn't work;
3. While trying to remove/reinstall Kaspersky, I've noticed that in fact Kaspersky is not present in the list of installed applications while Avira (the AV I used to have up to 2014 when I've switched to Kaspersky) is... Remember that I cannot remove some peripherals? Well, they are Avira's network peripherals... Obviously, Avira is not installed anymore since 2014...
4. at the start-up I keep seeing the list of files being loaded, like you see when loading in safe mode, although it is working in normal mode.
5. some apps (e.g.: comodo icedragon browser) also do not start.
6. sfc /scannow reports files that cannot be repaired.
So, my impression is that the "start-up repair" process has somehow resuscitated a really old registry files... Unfortunately, I do not have any restore point nor restore disk. My only hope is that somewhere I still have a more recent copy of the registry: would it be possible?
Any advice? Would installing the SP1 fix the files that SFC cannot fix?
Thanks in advance
Bests
