ginger79

Man, I think that I'm in such a mess I don't know where to start.

In May I came onto this site to ask about these folders that had a lot of numbers and letters in them and were cluttering up my C drive. At that time I was told that they were normal updates and not to worry about them.

However, when I look at them they mention things about Windows NT which I have never used/installed.

So I left it at that on the advice of the mod.

Although, as I'm a bit anal and don't like mess I did decide to create a single folder and move all the folders into that 1 folder and call it done.

Then, recently I noticed that windows updates weren't updated and were terminating before they finished. If I tried to switch my computer off at night it would say that it was installing updates but I would leave it 8+hrs and it would still say that it was updating.

I still didn't think too much of it until the other week when I wanted to update my IPod and Itunes wouldn't recognise my Ipod. I tried to uninstall Itunes as per the apple help site but it would come up with a message - I have attached it to this post.

Thinking that this was somehow linked to the funny folders I thought that I should try to fix that.

So, I came back here for help again on another side of the forum and they suggested I do a system recovery which I did do but it would only go back to the start of July. Windows now seems to update ok.

However, tonight I got a message about my system shutting down because the dcoms server process launcher terminated unexpectedly. Picture also attached.

It then shut down my computer.

Thinking this strange I tried to google it but when I would click on the sites to give me information it would take me to strange sites and say that they sites where blocked.

This also occured when I tried to come here. I had to press the back button and then click on the address bar and press enter.

I have spyware doctor installed but through I would maybe disable that and install avg to see if I could work out what was wrong when the Installer error came up again.

Please help!

*edit* it won't let me upload the pictures. I can try again later if you want?

TheBruce1

Hello and welcome to TSF

These $NTUninstall folders are created when you install a Microsoft Service Pack, a hotfix, or certain security updates. Leave them alone.

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