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Cannot open cmd, task manager, and other administrator tasks
This started when I went to get on the computer one morning last week and noticed my computer was at the windows login screen. I logged in and there was a message in the icon bar that said windows could not start some service. I went to look at my services by running services.msc and got this error:
"C:\Windows\system32\services.msc
File system error (-1073740771)."
When I try and run cmd I get:
"The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application."
And when I try and run cmd as an administrator I get:
"C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
File system error (-1073740771)."
When I try to start Task Manager by either hitting CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or right clicking the taskbar and hitting Start Task Manager, my cursor will briefly change to the loading icon but nothing will happen.
When I try CTRL+ALT+DELETE my screen goes black and an error comes up saying:
"The logon process was unable to display security and logon options when CTRL+ALT+DELETE was pressed. If the operating system does not respond, press ESC or restart the computer by using the power switch."
Anyone have any ideas as to what caused this and how to fix it?