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No access to my C: drive or any flies that are on the drive
Hello
A few hours ago I downgraded to windows 7, as I just can't stand windows 10. The downgrade went smoothly, and before I knew it I had windows 7 reinstalled. I installed the Realtek ethernet driver needed for me to get on the internet, and I started to download windows updates. ~197 updates were found, and I started downloading them right away. While the PC were downloading the updates, I installed Avast, Skype, Steam, Spotify, Discord and CS 1.6. The updates were half done when I had installed all of the previously mentioned programs, and I left the pc for about an hour. When I came back, the pc said that ~159 updates were successfully installed, and the rest failed. I then restarted the pc, and it took some time to restart, as windows were configuring the updates. When I logged into my windows 7 admin account, I noticed that the pc's desktop was black, and that my icons didn't pop up right away. Then came some errors such as: api-ms-win-downlevel-user32-l1-1-0.dll, and api-ms-win-downlevel-ole32-l1-1-0.dll. I noticed that I couldn't open any of the previously installed programs, and I also couldn't access my C: drive. I can't open any programs as an administrator, even though I've followed 10+ guides saying that I should change the security settings, and change ownership of the drive. That doesn't seem to work at all, and I can't enable the hidden admin account either. I don't know what to do at this point, as it doesn't seem like I have access to download or install programs, as google chrome doesn't want to load any pages, and Internet Explorer doesn't open, because of the API error mentioned earlier.
I have no clue what went wrong, and I am in desperate need of help. I will link a video I uploaded on youtube, where all the different errors can be seen. Please help me, thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m_QG9p1f6A