help with hijack this log

[LJborn]

Could this by any chance have something to do with all the Services I was instructed by cauzomb to disable? (see earlier parts of this thread).

Please advise.

[jholland1964]

Could this by any chance have something to do with all the Services I was instructed by cauzomb to disable? (see earlier parts of this thread).

Please advise.

No I don't believe so...more likely the problem you had was not really fixed by all of this and now has been exacerbated by what you did on 7/23/2010:

I did a system restore back to 5/10/2010

Which essentially "undid" or complicated anything you have done on the computer since that date. I truly believe this was a huge mistake.

Look at all you have done to the computer since that May 10th date:
Removed the following programs:
Advanced System Optimizer 3 - which likely had done some damage all ready
Portions of the old Norton/Symantec program which was RUNNING
Uninstalled AVG and installed Avira
Then you:
Unchecked everything from msconfig start up
Hid microsoft services and unchecked everything else
Ran CheckDisk and defragged
Probably corrupted files because you used the power button to turn off your computer multiple times.
Changed the pagefile size
Disabled various MS services
Added a registry patch

Now by going back to May 10th this has "undone" and "redone" a lot of the registry changes made since then. Meaning some things removed had their registry entries restored. As you noted, Avira was PARTLY gone and AVG was PARTLY back because a System Restore will NOT remove programs.
System Restore actually operates only on a very few system files and settings. System Restore backs up your registry. System Restore does not backup your data. If you delete or damage a file, System Restore will not recover it. System Restore will NOT uninstall a program. In fact if you have installed a program and find you don't want it if you use System Restore it may leave you with much of the program but it just won't be listed in Add/Remove, making it much harder to uninstall. System Restore does not keep old copies of your files or settings. If you're looking for an "old version" of a file or program that you used to have on your machine, System Restore isn't going to have it. System Restore does not fix your system. So if your computer crashes and needs to be repaired System Restore will not repair it.

System Restore is meant to restore from very RECENT changes like just day or two, not weeks. If you install a new driver for instance and that driver doesn't work correctly then System Restore may be able to restore the computer back to just before the time that driver was installed and revert back to older settings...not weeks back just a short time back.


Honestly now, with the problems you are having my only recommendation is a complete reformat and reinstall. You obviously have major damage to major files on the computer and to continue to try to find and fix these is all but impossible. A reformat and restore will take a few hours. I wouldn't mess with this anymore if it were my computer.

[LJborn]

Well, I'm not an expert. What I did on 7/23 was on the advice of this forum, including the exact date for system restore.

I gather you would have given me different advice, had you been online the next to last week in July.

I 'solved' the logon problem by a system restore to right before I made the change that caused the problem, i.e. 3 days ago. I now have to put in a password to logon, but at least I can get in. I'm afraid to try to get rid of logon by myself, since I obviously messed up the last time.

I went into msconfig and only my antivirus program and Itunes run at startup.

I went into revo uninstaller and got rid of remnants of that optimizer program that y'all said was a problem. I think it is totally gone from my computer.

I'm not really clear on what you want me to do. Are you talking about wiping my computer and reinstalling everything? Or is there some intermediary cleaning exercise that you are suggesting?

Again, I am not in any way an expert in these things. I basically do what I'm told, if I can understand how, which usually means pretty detailed instructions. I totally understand if you are so unhappy with what I did that you aren't interested in going any further. Thanks anyway for your time. I'm sure you are busy, and it must be frustrating when you see things done a way you wouldn't have recommended.