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11-30-2006, 04:18 PM
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Aston Shell program - messed up my PC big time
I installed a program called aston shell reccomended by a friend, and let me tell you this thing is TOTALLY destroying my PC. It allows you to change the appearance of your whole windows GUI basically like a skin-similar to windowBlinds. First of all, it WAS working fine, but now problems have started to occur. I got some weird message on the start bar while in Aston that was like "if everything seems OK, youre probably missing something
 " which makes me think that this prog. installed a virus of some sort. oddly enough i did get a virus warning message but it was from portable GIMP (photo editing software.), so i deleted that. now the windows messenger thing keeps coming up on the bottom right, which is usually NEVER there. finally, the pc is godawfully SLOW with a dual core 4400+ and 2 gigs of super fast RAM. It goes to the welcome screen, sits ther a while, goes to the thing that lets oyu pick between aston and the regular XP interface, and then i click that and it takes a while to load the interface. I tried removing aston, but when i do that i have NOTHING! no start bar, no windows, just a mouse going over a blank screen. I tried a system restore but it left the program on there. what can i do?!
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11-30-2006, 04:31 PM
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A repair installation of windows may be the fix.
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11-30-2006, 06:35 PM
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I used to do the same thing until I too, experienced how these programs mess up your shell32 and the files necessary to create the Windows GUI.
Look in C:\WINDOWS\Resources and make sure nothing looks out of the ordinary.
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11-30-2006, 09:40 PM
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I don't know if anything other that a full repair reinstall will save you but remember this for the future : Any thing that can mess with the desktop in that way can destroy your install.
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