Changes made while PC was closed down

Any idea how that could happen?

At start up, Windows took forever and then came up with my user name to click on. That's new.

Comodo Firewall asked me to allow or deny most of the programs on my computer, things like CCleaner that I've always had. It took a long time to click Allow on each one.

Other things like my email favorites have been deleted and I can't access certain areas of my computer. It's as if someone moved everything around and disabled many of my standard programs.

What do you suggest to get my PC back to normal? If going back to a restore point will help, how do I access it?

 

corrupt registry, maybe it created a new profile.
Have you rebooted to see if it goes back to normal?
What OS are you trying to restore?

This is why I run Erunt everyboot.

 

I just took a look at Erunt. The problem is I don't want to restore the mess I have now. I don't know which restore point would be before this happened.

I spent all of yesterday trying to run READ & RUN and ended up with no protection, a frozen PC, and warnings that my PC was at risk. Rebooting several times finally got Windows Essentials to turn on protection. Closure of AV, firewalls and other safety features are problems I've been getting for weeks. One minute they're running fine, the next they've been disabled. None of the scan I run show viruses or malware.

I'm tempted to remove everything back to when the repair place restored my OS.

Windows Vista 64-bit, Word 2010. Panda Pro 2010 (an untrustworthy program).

 

Well if it is that bad any restore point may be a good restore point.
I always have had a program that backs up my registry from way back with Win 98, the IBM I bought had Csafe SOS & that program taught me a valuable lesson.

At least the few times I had to use Vista restore it did seem to work. Vista doesn't seem to have a registry recovery like XP

Sorry i can't be more help, but I avoided Vista like it was ME.

 

I know what you mean about Vista. My old XP had few problems until recently - which may be when the hacker got into it and ruined it. A used Vista was my only financial option at the time.

I Googled Repair Vista Registry and several items appeared. Haven't tried any yet.

 

Thanks. I'll check on Start Up and misconfig to see what's there. I ran two full scans last night that came up clean. When I think about it, if a hacker comes in and does things like disable my security, it isn't going to show on any scan. I installed a couple of programs this morning from MG which might catch the hacker. Fingers crossed.

I'll be back when I've checked those programs to see what's in there.