Help Please

[Ghamper]

My computer has began acting pretty strange the past few days and I figured I would see if i can get some help as to determining why. I'm noticing subtle changes: some options in my Control Panel doesn't have text and won't let me click on them, random files are popping up in random places with no file name and a white box for an icon, when I try to open a folder this "windows is installing" window pops up, and for some reason I can't install Office 2007 or the 2010 beta. I ran a virus scan using MSE and a malware scan using Malwarebytes Anti-malware both showed nothing. Should I use something else as security or is this something deeper than a virus?

 

[not so gray matter]

That's either a virus or some sort of system malfunction...

Here are some resources to take a look at:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

 

[AussieGuy92]

it could be a virus scan with superantispyware, and a-squared antimalware.

 

[CommonTater]

My computer has began acting pretty strange the past few days and I figured I would see if i can get some help as to determining why. I'm noticing subtle changes: some options in my Control Panel doesn't have text and won't let me click on them, random files are popping up in random places with no file name and a white box for an icon, when I try to open a folder this "windows is installing" window pops up, and for some reason I can't install Office 2007 or the 2010 beta. I ran a virus scan using MSE and a malware scan using Malwarebytes Anti-malware both showed nothing. Should I use something else as security or is this something deeper than a virus?

It's virused...

Try a deep scan with a-squared Free - Free of charge Anti-Virus, Anti-Trojan, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Dialer and Anti-Worm Software - Freeware!

Do all the data base updates (takes about 15 minutes) and run the scan from safe mode if possible.

 

[motc7]

Malwarebytes is also a good one.

 

[whs]

Do you have restore points from the time when your system was still "normal"?? If yes, do a system restore. That would probably be the easiest way to fix the probelm. For the future, I recommend you do imaging because you can keep the images as long as you like. They do not disappear over time like restore points. I still have images from last year when I first istalled win7.

 

[CassieFWinTeam]

My first thought is to do a system restore (like WHS suggested), it is a way of bringing your system back to an earlier time before you started seeing the these changes. Learn more about doing a system restore here, Windows 7 features - System Restore - Microsoft Windows. It is also good to keep MSE running in the background to help prevent these issues in the future.

Cheers,
Cassandra
Microsoft Windows Outreach

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

You could also try running "sfc /scannow" from an elevated command prompt window and see if that helps.