Windows 7 Auto recovery/startup repair fucked up Windows and what not
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Long story short: I allowed starforce to be installed, and shit, Windows 7 stopped starting up. It booted, but then when it loaded the fucking starforce driver it fucked itself over.
So anyway, I let auto recovery run and all, I mean, it always fixed my other problems, so I waited. For a god damn hour, for what? So it can tell me that it can't fix it? What the fuck, I thought.
So I decided to see what the fucking problem was, turns out it was a corrupt file. (Probably that damn power cut, should get myself a UPS)
I had to switch off Auto repair for it to tell me what file was corrupt, and it turns out, it was the fucking starforce drivers. I kind of ask why Auto Repair was unable to just DELETE THE FUCKER RIGHT THERE.
So that's what I did, I disabled Driver Signature Checking whatevertheshit and deleted that fuck of a shit.
So anyway, I was grinning away, another victory against the evils of.. yeah.
About to watch some BSG, [b]BOOM, SUDDENLY[/b] "Server Execution Failed". I thought to myself, Hah, no big deal, I mean repairs and shit come with some backdrops, this is probably an easy fix.
So I looked it up on the intertubes, read up on some 3 different solutions only to be left disappointed. Fucking thing stayed broken. I then downloaded VLC. Oh how much better it was, oh wow.
But that's no all gentlemen, ooh no.. Turns out a bunch of files and shit became misplaced, Windows thinks some shit is in a different location or something.
Anyway, started up Live messenger and shit, when a nice menu with the words "Fuck You" came up. Well, not really, but live and shit was not there, so it's the same thing. I thought this to be normal and all, just part of it all, but when I went to reinstall it, goddamn installer thought it was already there. It wasn't, and it isn't. I even deleted the rest of the folder myself.
Well, I found a fix from the devs themselves, but guess what? The fucking javascript engine no longer works. What the fuck were you doing Startup Recovery?
So I said to myself, I'm not taking this shit, especially not from a piece of shit caused by a single fucking file, causing Windows to fuck itself in the arse with a goddamn car.
I went to that recover shit, to roll back the computer to a later date, well, fuck that too I guess, there are no roll back dates.
Windows is playing with me man, I can feel it.
But there's more, there are now [i]two[/i] desktop folders, and a bunch of icons disappeared.
Goddamn at least it didn't touch my personal files, right? Nope, it's all there. All safe, for now at least.
System itself is still fully operational, except for being all fuc
I haven't yet tried running any games of heavy software.
I don't want to format, since It's so damn close to a full release of Win7, 22 of October, isn't it?
I mean, what the fuck happened Facepunch? Is there a way to clean this battlefield up? What the fuck did Auto repair do?
IE: Don't use Auto Recovery/repair/startup repair, do it yourself.
IE: Help me
I have all my personal files in a separate partition, so it's no biggie, I can format and all, no worries, just patch over the other partition, but not yet.. I 'm not done with this bitch yet.
Any ideas on what to do, anyone in a similar situation before?
Sorry for all the anger and shit, fucking bitch of a computer this is, always gave me problems, from goddamn day one.
Surprised USB ports still work.
TLDR: read it you lazy fuck
moral of story: dont install random shit on your PC.
OP reformat.
Eh, it was Panzers Phase II.
Not random shit, mate.
you dont need drivers to play a game.
Shouldn't have to.
Unless it's a display patch but that is rarely needed.
The only thing I can offer is to take the HDD out shove it into another computer and take out what ever it installed.
If that doesn't work
Time for a Reformat and never install the driver again.
Because =
ATi drivers only work for ATi video cards,
Vice versa with Nvidia and S3 cards.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~;17747517]Shouldn't have to.
Unless it's a display patch but that is rarely needed.
The only thing I can offer is to take the HDD out shove it into another computer and take out what ever it installed.
If that doesn't work
Time for a Reformat and never install the driver again.
Because =
ATi drivers only work for ATi video cards,
Vice versa with Nvidia and S3 cards.[/QUOTE]
starforce drivers are for joysticks
nothing to do with his video card.
[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17747527]starforce drivers are for joysticks
nothing to do with his video card.[/QUOTE]
Ignore me then, because I am fuck lost with this one.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~;17747553]Ignore me then, because I am fuck lost with this one.[/QUOTE]
like i said. he shouldnt install them. because you can just use the default drivers and they should work fine.
[QUOTE=BananasGoMoo;17747563]like i said. he shouldnt install them. because you can just use the default drivers and they should work fine.[/QUOTE]
Or keyboard and mouse :V:
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~;17747572]Or keyboard and mouse :V:[/QUOTE]
that too.
I was referring to the Starforce DRM, which auto installs with the game.
Anyway, I'm backing up my stuff and prepping for a format and clean install.
Thanks guys.
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