Jesswood87
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Hi everyone,
I wonder if anyone more knowledgeable than me can help me with a problem with Windows 7 Home Premium. This morning I finally allowed my laptop to do its system update and restart (after a day or two of postponing), but when it was completed I noticed some weird issues. Corrupt copies of (many) various files and applications have appeared, which cannot be opened (a message tells me they can't be opened because they are corrupt). A '$' has also appeared at the start of the names of all of these corrupt copies. In most cases, the original file is still there, and can be opened, but if I delete a corrupt copy and then open the original file, a corrupt copy appears. As my entire PhD work is contained on my computer I'm a little nervous..! (Obviously I'm not doing a PhD in computer science) I've tried doing a system restore to before the update, but it didn't complete - when my computer restarted a message told me it had failed to complete and that I should disable my anti-virus protection and give it another go. That sounded a bit suspicious to me so I didn't do it, and now I'm running a Norton scan. As I said, my original files *seem* to still all be there, but I'm not really happy with all these corrupt copies appearing all over the place.
Any ideas? Many many thanks to anyone with any suggestions..!
Jess
I wonder if anyone more knowledgeable than me can help me with a problem with Windows 7 Home Premium. This morning I finally allowed my laptop to do its system update and restart (after a day or two of postponing), but when it was completed I noticed some weird issues. Corrupt copies of (many) various files and applications have appeared, which cannot be opened (a message tells me they can't be opened because they are corrupt). A '$' has also appeared at the start of the names of all of these corrupt copies. In most cases, the original file is still there, and can be opened, but if I delete a corrupt copy and then open the original file, a corrupt copy appears. As my entire PhD work is contained on my computer I'm a little nervous..! (Obviously I'm not doing a PhD in computer science) I've tried doing a system restore to before the update, but it didn't complete - when my computer restarted a message told me it had failed to complete and that I should disable my anti-virus protection and give it another go. That sounded a bit suspicious to me so I didn't do it, and now I'm running a Norton scan. As I said, my original files *seem* to still all be there, but I'm not really happy with all these corrupt copies appearing all over the place.
Any ideas? Many many thanks to anyone with any suggestions..!
Jess