winuae woes....

[hardware geek]

I am surprise that no one told him to run sfc in dos. System File checker- viruses and adware can delete dos commands trying to make it harder for you to delete them. also some uninstallers not written well can delete more than their software.
Microsoft Windows XP Syntax
 
SFC [/SCANNOW] [/SCANONCE] [/SCANBOOT] [/REVERT] [/PURGECACHE] [/CACHESIZE=x]
 
/SCANNOWScans all protected system files immediately./SCANONCEScans all protected system files once at the next boot./SCANBOOTScans all protected system files at every boot./REVERTReturn scan to default setting./PURGECACHEPurges the file cache./CACHESIZE=xSets the file cache size.
/SCANNOW Scans all protected system files immediately.
/SCANONCE Scans all protected system files once at the next boot.
/SCANBOOT Scans all protected system files at every boot.
/REVERT Return scan to default setting.
/PURGECACHE Purges the file cache.
/CACHESIZE=x Sets the file cache size.
 
best and free solution to stop this from happening is superantispyware, and MS security essentails.
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[hardware geek]

Many companies will run for about another 2 years until ms gives up all support. This is due to the number of apps they have. If you have 3000 apps and you need all of them to run do you upgrade and even lost 5% from running or do you stay with what you have. Even replacing 5% could cost millions. or do you slowly replace old apps with new old making sure everything work until you force to switch over. Ever time you switch out an app you need to retrain employees is it better to do all at once. In that case you have total confusion and no work being done or slowly to give employees a chance to learn the new systems.
Beleive me when I say the employees are dumb. Just had a ticket to fix a projector -the vga cable was not plugged in. Or a call from an employee that did not know what the power plug was!