So today I come home, get on my computer and I notice the windows bars are in the classic mode (as opposed to xp theme) so I goto properties and try to change the theme back to windows xp, but on the menu bar it only has windows classic and XP isnt listed at all. I dont really like windows classic so I look for some themes for litestep and install it and so forth. Fast forward a few hours. Out of no where all my programs whenever I start them are saying they are missing files. Ex: I tried to run starcraft and it gave me an error message that it was missing a certain file, but I had just played it a few hours (was running when litestep was already installed), I try scmdraft2 it works, then I come back later and it has a fatal error and it is missing stardat.mpq. Then I try some other programs and they all have thier own missing files. I try to run a virus scan using Norton...it came up with a fatal error due to a missing file. I run adware and it works fine, gets rid of 61 things, tracking list, MRU list, and the wierd part..Windows. I thought nothing of it and removed them all, any ideas of how I can fix this problem?
PS. I got litestep and its themes from a reputable website.
Edit: Hope this is in the right forum, the next thing that might go might be IE so w/e.
Maybe you got a virus that's working as you are active at the computer, you should try press ctrl + alt + delete and then into the taskmanager you should google every task that's going on, some of them might be critical and could make damage to your computer.
Actually I have never seen this happening, but it's my advise to you.
Somebody probably screwed around on the computer and deleted a bunch of stuff or removed a few programs that removed some universal files that other programs also used... Or it could always be spyware/virus/whatever doin it. Best thing all 'round is to do a re-install of the os's files... Or if you don't wanna do that you can search the net for your missing files and put 'em where they belong so that you can run your neccissary programs.