Weirdest Thing Ever

[radiofloyd]

Loaded up my computer this morning and everything had that Windows 95 look:

I mean everything was all grey. My McAfee had a warning saying "Security Centre is turned off" so I tried to enable it and it said the service controlling this program is disabled.

So I went into msconfig and all my services were disabled. They had all been disabled on 21/7/2013 at 08:00. I enabled all the services that had been stopped and restarted - thank fuck everything went back to normal.

Weird though! What the hell do you think happened?

[spatular]

what os are you running?

[radiofloyd]

Vista

[spatular]

strange! i've seen xp go like that and windows server OS's but not vista, not that i've used vista much.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/windows-vista-display-changed-to-windows-98-or/69a6a65a-7f4b-4dd6-bdd5-db46b27e1fe6

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-desktop/windows-vista-automatic-update-91510-has-changed/46a52d88-208b-4588-b758-4495af9143ea

[radiofloyd]

Yeah it's weird. Could be those windows updates, I had something astronomical like 31 updates not too long ago when I shut down my computer. Usually it's only two or three though.

[RoboticMonk3y]

sounds like it started up in safe/recovery mode.

often happens if you turn off your pc at the wall before shutting down, but sometimes (especially in the heat) hard drives throw a hissy fit

probably nothing to worry about, run a full virus/malware scan if you're worried though.

[radiofloyd]

Ah thanks. Will do when I get my cooling fans! McAfee is another program like Steam that sends my temperatures into overdrive...

[DANGERMAN]

uninstall it and get Microsoft Security Essentials, it's a lot less bloaty