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Something similar happened to me. Losing all the photos was the worst
So my sister just got a virus on my desktop...
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Something similar happened to me. Losing all the photos was the worst
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my thoughts exactly
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my thoughts exactly
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what irus? my letter \/ dont work....
but you can et back majority of your stuff...
pm me see if i can help
but you can et back majority of your stuff...
pm me see if i can help
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what irus? my letter \/ dont work....
but you can et back majority of your stuff...
pm me see if i can help
but you can et back majority of your stuff...
pm me see if i can help
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system restore to an earlier time.
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system restore to an earlier time.
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2nd page though?
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2nd page though?
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that must be a bad surprise...
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that must be a bad surprise...
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dumb broad
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I had that the other day after my kids were on my laptop. It's just a few hours work to get everything back. It's all there - just the icons are hidden.
I'll look up the instructions I used and post them in a minute. They were on bleepingcomputer.com who I have always found helpful.
I'll look up the instructions I used and post them in a minute. They were on bleepingcomputer.com who I have always found helpful.
kdawg
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I had that the other day after my kids were on my laptop. It's just a few hours work to get everything back. It's all there - just the icons are hidden.
I'll look up the instructions I used and post them in a minute. They were on bleepingcomputer.com who I have always found helpful.
I'll look up the instructions I used and post them in a minute. They were on bleepingcomputer.com who I have always found helpful.
kdawg
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Here it is:
http://www.bleepingcomput...emove-windows-7-recovery
You have to use the Rkill first which stops the program - if you don't do that it won't let you change things. Then run the malwarebytes scanner - which took a few hours. Then when that is done you run unhide.exe which shows your icons again.
Like I said it took me a few hours but it wasn't too hard. It's much easier if you have another computer to download the programs on and follow the instructions from.
http://www.bleepingcomput...emove-windows-7-recovery
You have to use the Rkill first which stops the program - if you don't do that it won't let you change things. Then run the malwarebytes scanner - which took a few hours. Then when that is done you run unhide.exe which shows your icons again.
Like I said it took me a few hours but it wasn't too hard. It's much easier if you have another computer to download the programs on and follow the instructions from.
kdawg
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Here it is:
http://www.bleepingcomput...emove-windows-7-recovery
You have to use the Rkill first which stops the program - if you don't do that it won't let you change things. Then run the malwarebytes scanner - which took a few hours. Then when that is done you run unhide.exe which shows your icons again.
Like I said it took me a few hours but it wasn't too hard. It's much easier if you have another computer to download the programs on and follow the instructions from.
http://www.bleepingcomput...emove-windows-7-recovery
You have to use the Rkill first which stops the program - if you don't do that it won't let you change things. Then run the malwarebytes scanner - which took a few hours. Then when that is done you run unhide.exe which shows your icons again.
Like I said it took me a few hours but it wasn't too hard. It's much easier if you have another computer to download the programs on and follow the instructions from.
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OP download RKill and malwarebytes. Chances are you didnt lose any data at all.
oh and Cloud backup > your own HDD backup.
oh and Cloud backup > your own HDD backup.
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OP download RKill and malwarebytes. Chances are you didnt lose any data at all.
oh and Cloud backup > your own HDD backup.
oh and Cloud backup > your own HDD backup.
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Always back up files to an external hard drive
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Always back up files to an external hard drive
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Cosign. ALWAYS backup. You don't think it'll happen to you, but hard drives are designed to fail some just sooner than others. I learned the hard way a month ago
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Cosign. ALWAYS backup. You don't think it'll happen to you, but hard drives are designed to fail some just sooner than others. I learned the hard way a month ago