Toshiba Satellite Laptop Metro and other applications not working

[soldbylinz]

Hello!
I hope someone can help me!  I cannot access many things on my new computer.  It's weird.  Toshiba Video Player just "stopped" working 2 days ago, when it was playing dvd's just fine on Thursday.  I reinstalled the driver from Toshiba's website and I get errors: Version source is not target built.  (whatever that means)

Also, metro will not work.  I cannot change any settings or even click the calculator (the green icon) just doesn't work.  Every app that came standard with this computer, even if I click music nothing comes up, just a little greyed out box on my taskbar.

Please assist me.

[DaveLembke]

Toshiba Video Player just "stopped" working 2 days ago, when it was playing dvd's just fine on Thursday.

Have you tried to restore back to a restore point that is before Thursday?... if the problem was created after Thursday and a restore point is available from prior than Thursday, you can be quickly back up and running healthy again if its just some corruption that needs to be corrected.

[soldbylinz]

I will try the restore for the video player, however the toshiba apps have never worked.

[Geek-9pm]

I will try the restore for the video player, however the toshiba apps have never worked.

Pardon me.
If the Toshiba apps do not work, did you never ask Toshiba for support?
Is the PC still inside of the Warranty?  Did you buy this from a specific vendor named 'Target'? Otherwise this could be an error message from the Java run time.

[soldbylinz]

It stopped a while ago.  I didn't care much because I wasn't into the whole new look.  I like xp style and that's what I'm used to lol.  I bought this as an open box.  But now I might as well change with the times.  I have not contacted support $$ I think there's a possible virus as well.  Nothing in the scans, but Search Conduit is attacking Firefox.
Target as in the targeted command prompt.

[soldbylinz]

Did the system restore annnnnnd it failed.  Went to restore points earlier in the month and still failed.

I am not opposed to doing a factory reset.

Advise?

[soldbylinz]

Even windows media player will not play the dvds.  It says selected file has an extension (.) that is not recognized by windows media player.  See attached.

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]

[Geek-9pm]

... Search Conduit is attacking Firefox.

You nerd to fix that. You have some kind of virus or Trojan on your s stem.
Backup your personal data. Search Conduit is bad. **
A factory restore might resolve your problems.

** It is claimed tart Conduit is legal. But many, myself included, believe it is not to be trusted at all. Get rid of it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_%28publisher_network_and_platform%29

[soldbylinz]

Can we transfer my post to the spyware forum or would I have to post a new topic for further assistance?

[patio]

Start a new Topic over there...