I have a few problems: I can't run system restore, no audio, the start menu, task bar and windows look different. They look similar to the classic version. I went to the start menu > run (typed services.msc) I found system restore, I right clicked and selected properties. On service status it said stopped so I clicked on start and this message appears. Could not start the System Restore Service on Local Computer. Error 1083: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service. The same error message(1083) appears when I try to start windows audio and network connections(both are stopped). I forgot to mention I can't go online. I noticed the services I can't start have the same path to executable C:WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe-k netsvcs If somebody could help me I would really appreciate it.
[this can be a virus masked as usual process Svchost.exe is a generic process name for services for loading dynamic link libraries (DLLs). When you start Windows XP, Svchost,exe constructs multiple lists of service groupings that need to be loaded. Each instance can run at the same time. Svchost,exe groups are delineated at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Svchost. The command: svchost -k netsvcs starts the network related services C:\Windows\System32 this is the running copy of Windows itself. this is the only copy of svchost.exe that should actually be running. find it in another directory, it is part of a virus.