First off please excuse my lack of knowledge or correct terminology.
My OS is Win 8 Pro (staying away from 8.1 as long as humanly possible), i5 2400 CPU, 120GB SSD, & a GTX 670. Its almost exclusively used for gaming.
I've been using Classic Shell on my & many of the peoples PC's we look after without incident for months, but...
I downloaded the latest version of Classic Shell & installed it giving permission to close explorer (which I've done on 2 previous update occasions without any problem).
When explorer restarted...
- The task bar links were inoperable,
- The file permissions were reset to most items.
- The profile information for Firefox was unable to be located.
- The library links to folders ie: documents, music etc were empty & failed to open.
I restored my system to a few hours before but the changes are registry based which is where I'm a little bit of a novice.
After restart the task bar links were white & empty.
I decided to go back & re-download the latest version in case it got corrupted.
I've attempted to reset the exe & other essential files using a DVD image I have for such occurrences (usually only used in relation to Trojan & Malware/Spyware attacks) but the DVD drive is inoperable.
These are the classic symptoms of a Trojan attack but I'm sure its an easy fix if I'm pointed in the right direction. I'd rather not re-install so, HELP
Now I've had some problems recently with various versions of Avast blocking items it shouldn't & generally behaving badly.
If you need any other info I'll be checking back every so often.
Thanks in advance.
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