Win 7 Install Has Made A Mess

I had a malware/trojan infection a few days ago that kept me occupied for the better part of two days with cleaning up using: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Anti-Rootkit AdwCleaner Junkware Removal Tool Norton Power Eraser Sophos Virus Removal Tool Trendmicro Housecall SpyBot Search &...

On my Dell optiplex 780, I was getting so many errors I decided to reinstall Win 7.:( I guess this was a big mistake since since now I get the message that the one version I was going to install was a version older than the one I was replacing(bad one).:roflmao: then it told me I could not do this....

Hello, My name is Alex, and first of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to help me. SYSTEM: I am running an optiplex 755 with a 160gb 7200rpm hard drive. Just added a 320gb WD 5400rpm hard drive. WAS dual booting win7 pro 64bit (OEM) and winxp pro 32bit ATTEMPTED: I wanted...

Files within c:\users\public folder have been reset to owner "Administrators" and all security is gone. Inhereted security from c:\users\public is still there on all files and folders. What security is the default on a normal windows 7 machine? Please send me outpu of follwing commands ...

I am moving house & there will now be two people sharing my PC, one using XP & the other 7. I would like to ideally do a fresh install of XP, or maybe, or not, an in place upgrade. Trouble is I've read that you need to install Window's OSs in order of age, XP>Vista>7. Is there a way to...