Did cleaning process after significant system melt down (software) and rebuild

I am just trying to recover after having a significant system corruption which was mentioned in this thread, please excuse the dramatics:

WARNING!! TuxGuitar 1.0 Final is the nastiest software EVER

After "rebuilding" the OS I have been going through and uninstalling and reinstalling my apps (not exactly sure how many are corrupted, but the vast majority are showing impairment at minimum). I am finally achieveing a level of functionality again but most old apps (non-reinstalled) wont work. I have completed all Windows updates, reinstalled drivers, MOBO Chipest, Video Card, and onboard Audio, but I have lost all sound. This occured once during the process of re-installing apps so I uninstalled k-lite Mega Codec pack and re-insatlled and had sound again. After that I was busy uninstalling apps and reinstalling (about another 5-6 at least after this) and have lost all sound. I am running the maleware scan attempting to ensure there are no nasties causing this issue.

Well here are results.

SUPERAntiSpyware found nothing but as it ran NOD32 went off and quarrentined this object.

Apart from NOD32 nothing has been found, ComboFix wont run on 64Bit environemnt and MGtools has stopped as well but generated a HijackThis log and GetUnkey text.

 

Im really dreading doing the whole re-format, re-install (coarse) approach but will if needed as the registry seems significantly corrupted. Other logs attached. This is all that I could obtain from MGtools.

I suppose essentially I dont want to inadvertanly save and reinstall some nasty if I do have to adopt the coarse approach, any assitance would be greatly appreciated.

To resolve Audio I have;
-All Windows Updates
-Updated MOBO Chipset Drivers
-Reinstalled with latest Realtek Audio Drivers
-Used MS Help exploring most avenues for audio
-Explored Realtek Audio HD Manager
-Explored Windows Volume Controls
-Explored Device Manager with no alerts

I have no system sounds, no movie sound and no audio sound.

 

To add to this I have processes still "populating" via "Process Explorer" even though the application in theory has been removed from my system, i.e. avgwdsvc.exe and avgemc.exe.

I removed AVG because it would not populate with the current registry (corruption somewhere) and yet these 2 processes persist.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you Chaslang.

AVG is nowhere to be found and I believed that I had fully removed it before installing NOD32 but then noted these 2 processes remaining. I will follow your advice, uninstall NOD32 and reinstall AVG and then remove, but this time ensuring a complete removal via Process Explorer. The whole system went haywire for lack of better words and had become significantly crippled, are undertaking the System File Checker and it does work and has asked for the CD.

At least there are no nasties in the system, thank you again.

 

I agree I was just using Process Explorer as a means to see if those services kept populating, which they did and thus confounded the fresh installation of AVG8.0 (it would not do it while those services were running, so I had to "disbale them" from start up and reboot and then reinsatll AVG8.0. Finally it is functioning normally again (AVG). I have left it installed for now as it is behaving normally.

Tried the sfc /scannow to attempt to repair issues but for some reason it "could not read the disk" (gave it a clean as well) when it came to those particualr files during the process, all I could do was cancel it each time and let it progress further. Will have to resolve another approach for the file replacement.

Have just re-installed MOBO Chipset Drivers, then uninstalled RealTek and K-Lite Mega Codec Pack and VLC, then conducted a fresh install of all these components and I Finally have sound back, played around in the RealTek sound management. So maybe Im moving forward now after being able to function with a single AV!

Have been able to get MGtools to progress a little further as well but it didn't like the 64Bit environment for some of the stages.

It's all baby steps but system is getting back to normal, even found my Oblivio Game folder and have that back to where it should be, yippee.

Thank you very much for your observations, now it is the clinical approach of trying to reinstall these specific files/xxx.dll/xxx.exe.

 

Just a quick question I still have several apps on the PC which are significantly corrupted, slowly getting to them and making restore points if things are going well, could any of these have files within the "WINDOWS/system32" or is that purely for the OS. I would assume that this is the case (OS only) but I like to never assume anything.

One of the apps is Office (seems very functional at the moment) and also WoW (completely corrupted) as examples.

Researching Microsoft for the missing files now.

 

A bit of research and I have found a thread with someone who has XP Professional x64 and seems to mirror the "exact" same missing files in his hjt log (for Windows/services32 that is), Im still digesting this but it looks to similar to be coincidence:

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Win32-p2p-cant-get-rid-it-t59320.html

Just letting you know that their is a specfic issue here so you dont waste anytime with it.

 

Thank you again, I am progressively removing all of my corrupted apps as I believe this was causing issues with the "sfc /scannow" causing WINDOWS to search for files that weren't part of the original OS. Google Earth was completely shot as an example, just taking baby steps and ensuring "Restore Points along the way. From what I gathered in the last thread I linked the HJThis Log will show some false positives for missing files in a 64Bit environment and that may explain most of the missing xxx.exe appearing in my log.

 

All services present and accounted for, with half being Automatic some Manual, even started 1-2 to ensure they functioned and it all "seems" okay at the moment., thanks.