Alright so I am listening to music on winamp and am on the internet and I just finished downloading a mixtape that is rar'd so I scan it for virus's like I do everytime I download something and comes up with nothing so I double click it. Now my music stops playing and my computer freezes. I think it is just my piece of shit computer so I hit reset after waiting 5 min for it to unfreeze. Now it loads up normally like it should and has no slowdown in my boot up. Now my desktop looks all rearanged and I notice that everything is double. Like if I have a folder called pictures it is there twice and all my shortcuts appear 2 times. So I think ok maybe there was some kind of glitch so I try to erase all the doubles and then the other one deletes too even though I never touched it so I take it out of the recycle Bin and it appears double again. So I try to delete it and create a new shortcut. The new one appears double as well. So I figure I can try a restart and when it restarts the boot up is slow and pauses at loading windows. So I resart again and this time is normal bootup but same thing on desktop. So I look around and notice my shortcut to Nero and Winamp is gone entirely. My Start menu is also has hardly any programs under all programs from over 30 to 10 total. I also notice that my shared folders where all my music and videos is gone as well. The folder that was named shared folder is now named documents with nothing in it. My C Drive still says there is the same amount of space as there was before it happened so my Music and Videos are not gone. So now I do a search for one of the videos that was in the folder and the search comes up empty. I even go to recent documents and try to click one I watched recently and it cannot find the file. So now I don't know what to do and I would want to backup all my stuff if I were to reformat but I can't find any of it. All the music I downloaded costed quite a bit of money as well because I had over 500 legitimately downloaded songs and 1000 illigitimately downloaded songs.
BTW if anyone needs to know the comps specs it is
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ S939
MSI Nforce4 Motherboard
1 GB of RAM
160GB HD
Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro PCI-E Video Card.
I am running Windows XP Pro.
BTW if anyone needs to know the comps specs it is
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ S939
MSI Nforce4 Motherboard
1 GB of RAM
160GB HD
Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro PCI-E Video Card.
I am running Windows XP Pro.