HitmanPro I'm purchasing!
I have been in the computer support side of things for 30 years! Just retired form "Corporate America" back in January and as soon as we sell the house we ater hitting the road. I have worked on ma...
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There are a lot of tools out there for Windows. HijackThis and Autoruns are great for manually de-lousing a machine... but one wrong move, and you have an unbootable system.
I'm lucky... I had an update fail (it fired up when I was busy doing a lot of other tasks), taking out a good chunk of my desktop's OS... so I just rebooted it via "shutdown -r -o -t 0", which popped up recovery options and reloaded a backup from a day earlier.
I highly recommend people find and use a decent backup program. This way, one can reload the entire machine from a known good copy, so there isn't a panic if something breaks.
I'm lucky... I had an update fail (it fired up when I was busy doing a lot of other tasks), taking out a good chunk of my desktop's OS... so I just rebooted it via "shutdown -r -o -t 0", which popped up recovery options and reloaded a backup from a day earlier.
I highly recommend people find and use a decent backup program. This way, one can reload the entire machine from a known good copy, so there isn't a panic if something breaks.
