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Title: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 01:53:43 PM

Everything, all my games and downloads turned to a wordpad document. I cant do a system restore, because thats a wordpad document now, i cant open anything! I NEED HELP!

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: lostcoast on September 09, 2012, 01:57:18 PM

your OS is Vista correct?

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 01:58:49 PM

Ive heard that i have a virus. If so, How do i stop it with out having to pay money?

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:00:14 PM

Yes my OS is Vista

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: Allan on September 09, 2012, 02:05:33 PM

Download BlueScreenView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html)
unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe to run the program.
when scanning is done, go to EDIT - Select All
Go to FILE - SAVE Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all of the content, and paste it into your next reply


 PLEASE DISREGARD THIS POST - I POSTED IT IN THIS THREAD BY ACCIDENT

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:09:14 PM

I will try, more than likely its not going to work.

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:16:24 PM

It wont work, all it gives me when i run it, is a wordpad document, that is what my issue is

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: Allan on September 09, 2012, 02:16:57 PM

Please disregard my previous post. I was in the wrong thread and I apologize for any confusion. What you need to do is the following: Please follow the instructions in the following link and post your logs in the thread you create (NOT in this thread):
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html)

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:17:52 PM

lol its ok. and do you want me to make a new thread?

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: Allan on September 09, 2012, 02:25:27 PM

Yes. Also, please do not correspond via private message. All comments and questions regarding this issue should remain in this thread. And no, we do not use team viewer.

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:37:16 PM

Ok the only thing that did work was the DDS thing.. the other stuff turned into wordpad documents

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:39:40 PM

so its all done what do i do now?

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 09, 2012, 02:41:02 PM

i didnt get the first 3 but i have the 4th step all done

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: lostcoast on September 11, 2012, 07:41:10 PM

I fixed it in chat here's the link  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950505 

Title: Re: EVERYTHING, MOSTLY EVERYTHING TURNED TO A WORDPAD DOCUMENT!
Post by: taylerthegeek on September 17, 2012, 05:51:38 PM

Thanks, I got help frm someone on chat. n i got it fixed!!!! CASE CLOSED lol