Hello.
I've got big problems with my computer recently and can't figure out what it is. A few times in a day it will restart on its own while I'm browsing the web, nothing heavy. One time during the restart it showed the blue screen of death but didn't say the regular "A problem has been detected, etc" It went away in a few seconds and all I could make of it that it was counting down something, stopped at the number 40 and proceeded to boot. After this all my notepad files now have the extension ".txt" on them, all my music files have the extention ".mp3" on them and all my Word files have the extension ".doc". Same with my avi files, etc. I can delete the extension in the file name but then the Word logo or windows media player logo disappears and I can't open the file. When I try and open the file without erasing the extension I get a "server execution failed" message. I've used BitDefender to try and scan for a virus - found a trojan and deleted it but the problem persists. I recently installed a few updates for my Windows 7 machine which might be the problem but haven't tried system restore yet (and don't really want to, tbh). Any idea what this could be? Has my HD gone dead?
I've got big problems with my computer recently and can't figure out what it is. A few times in a day it will restart on its own while I'm browsing the web, nothing heavy. One time during the restart it showed the blue screen of death but didn't say the regular "A problem has been detected, etc" It went away in a few seconds and all I could make of it that it was counting down something, stopped at the number 40 and proceeded to boot. After this all my notepad files now have the extension ".txt" on them, all my music files have the extention ".mp3" on them and all my Word files have the extension ".doc". Same with my avi files, etc. I can delete the extension in the file name but then the Word logo or windows media player logo disappears and I can't open the file. When I try and open the file without erasing the extension I get a "server execution failed" message. I've used BitDefender to try and scan for a virus - found a trojan and deleted it but the problem persists. I recently installed a few updates for my Windows 7 machine which might be the problem but haven't tried system restore yet (and don't really want to, tbh). Any idea what this could be? Has my HD gone dead?