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Back in the startup again (and again and again...)
Hello, I am new user and member, KBT. I am having a problem, and as the few others who had similar problems' solutions didn't work, I thought I would be straightforward and create a new thread to attract attention rather than posting in an old one. Forgive me if this is improper conduct.
WARNING: Wall of Text Ahead
My computer is about a year old, and has had no major issues until a few days ago. For the first time, and I do not know why, on startup, Startup repair... started. I was not even aware of this programs existence until that moment. After a lengthy wait time, I was asked to restart. I restarted, used my computer as normal, wrote it off as nothing more than a virus, and performed a full scan with MS Security Essentials (and later, at the behest of a much more knowledgeable friend, another with Malware Bytes'). Two startups later, and the process repeats. This time, I view the results. The root cause was something called error "0xa" in which critical file ci.dll failed to boot (paraphrased). I was also missing several files, and had a few I'd deleted. I went online, did as the first google result said without any thought, and moved on. Every second startup would still have to repair, and occasionally a few files would follow the same fate (thanks to an event called "restore point" I later discovered). Tired of it happening and eating so much time to find and "fix" the problem, I started trying other measures: sfc/scannow, disabling startups in MS Config, and sfc/verify. No changes. Being the arrogant dumba** I am, I thought I could just delete ALL past restore points and create a new one every time I was about to start my computer, and just deal with having to wait only five additional minutes before shutdown as opposed to 2-3 hours before startup. Good news: ci.dll is no longer listed as the problem. Bad news: startup repair cannot find the problem (which is listed as the "root cause", and I can't even enter Safe Mode. I have actually tried a "Restore to system default" and was rewarded with a single, brief glimpse of no data before the problem persisted. I have also tried Dzomlija's repair, and no luck. As I no longer have anything left to lose, and it is all just data that can be regained eventually, I have no problems with having to remove any and all memory. However, is there is a way to avoid this, as well as a way to prevent it from ever happening again, I open to ideas.
My laptop is an eMachine that boasts Windows7 and intel Celeron. I personally know no way to tell you anything else about it, do not have any sort of disk in the box (though I do have a small book wrapped in plastic, but alas, no disc was within), hate long walks in direct sunlight, and could probably write what I know about computers on a cigarette with a sharpie.
TL;DR I got problems, ese, and I already did this (Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery).