Weirdest Windows 8.1 Issue I have ever encountered....wtf

[itsmyjobtoknow]

So I booted up my machine and loaded into Windows 8.1 and everything seems to be loading up fine and then when I use chrome, chrome itself stops responding and then when I tried to log out and sign back in...it freezes during logging out. 

 

So I rebooted the machine and this time when I get into the OS...Outlook doesn't startup and gave me this message saying somewhere along the time of "I can't access this folder" and a similar message popped up for Dropbox saying it doesn't have permission to a folder and I couldn't open most of my programs like Chrome, Firefox..etc. I nearly freaked out thinking I got one of those ransom malware virus thing....but there isn't any random text file anywhere to be found.

 

I decided to have MalwareByte do a scan while doing Windows Update and checking to all my files.

 

While checking each image file I tried opening said it was either too large, or corrupted...so wtf

 

Eventually after the scan was over and "no threats detected" almost everything started working again...

When I went to open Outlook manually, it opens...Dropbox works...my images now shows up...every program I have just test works...so I am so very confused on what exactly happened...

 

Any of you have an Idea of what happened?

[Ceatra]

GPU? Sounds like a nVidia driver problem

 

Tell me your GPU and Driver please

 

only read half of it

[itsmyjobtoknow]

GPU? Sounds like a nVidia driver problem

 

Tell me your GPU and Driver please

 

only read half of it

 

GTX 980 Reference from Gigabyte

and Verison 352.30 

 

But can a Graphics Driver really cause an issue where none of my application loads due to "lack of permission" or essentially causing every folder to be a read-only folder?

 

Edit: You editted your message when I was writing this...dammit

[RossMadness]

Not sure what happened, but do the basic system integrity checks. 

 

Open a CMD window as an admin and type the following commands:

SFC /SCANNOW

 

SFC will run and check your Windows System Files for errors. If it finds any, hopefully it can replace them automagically.

 

Once that finishes, run:

 

DISM /ONLINE /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RESTOREHEALTH

 

This checks your component store and attempts to repair those as well.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

 

Not sure what happened, but do the basic system integrity checks. 

 

Open a CMD window as an admin and type the following commands:

SFC /SCANNOW

 

SFC will run and check your Windows System Files for errors. If it finds any, hopefully it can replace them automagically.

 

Once that finishes, run:

 

DISM /ONLINE /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RESTOREHEALTH

 

This checks your component store and attempts to repair those as well.

 

Doing it right now..Thanks for the tip

[itsmyjobtoknow]

 

Not sure what happened, but do the basic system integrity checks. 

 

Open a CMD window as an admin and type the following commands:

SFC /SCANNOW

 

SFC will run and check your Windows System Files for errors. If it finds any, hopefully it can replace them automagically.

 

Once that finishes, run:

 

DISM /ONLINE /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RESTOREHEALTH

 

This checks your component store and attempts to repair those as well.

 

 

"Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation"

[RossMadness]

"Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation"

 

SFC will give that sometimes. We can try a few things to work around it, but first try the DISM one. Does that also have an error?

[RH00D]

That really sounds like malware.

 

Keep in mind malware can avoid detection from scanners. It does this be actually moving which file it is hiding in as the scan is happening. So if its in File B and Malwarebytes has finished scanning File A, then it moves itself into File A and Malwarebytes scans File B after the malware has already moved out of it. So Malwarebytes detects nothing even though it is there, just moving around from file to file.

 

Honestly I would try one of those scans that scans prior to Windows boot up, I believe Avast can do those. If that doesn't fix it try restoring to a restore point. If you can't do that then maybe just format and install Windows again.

[CatzRuleZWorld]

Boot disk full? I think it could cause those kind of problems

[itsmyjobtoknow]

SFC will give that sometimes. We can try a few things to work around it, but first try the DISM one. Does that also have an error?

Error: 1392

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Boot disk full? I think it could cause those kind of problems

 

Nope, 113 GB free from 223GB

[itsmyjobtoknow]

That really sounds like malware.

 

Keep in mind malware can avoid detection from scanners. It does this be actually moving which file it is hiding in as the scan is happening. So if its in File B and Malwarebytes has finished scanning File A, then it moves itself into File A and Malwarebytes scans File B after the malware has already moved out of it. So Malwarebytes detects nothing even though it is there, just moving around from file to file.

 

Honestly I would try one of those scans that scans prior to Windows boot up, I believe Avast can do those. If that doesn't fix it try restoring to a restore point. If you can't do that then maybe just format and install Windows again.

 

Tried using Avast to do a bootup scan...no threats were detected but there were some corrupted files...

[RossMadness]

Error: 1392

 

Okay, so if both SFC and DISM are unable to repair, then you may have bad sectors on your harddrive. This can be fixed by using CHKDSK in a CMD window. 

BUT! Before you do that, I recommend running HDD Diagnostics. Two good programs for this are Seagate Seatools or WD Data Lifeguard. If the scans say the drives are good then we'll go over the CHKDSK options. But if the diagnostics say the drive is bad, then CHKDSK could cause data loss. 

So try Seagate Seatools or WD Data Lifeguard and report back with the results.

[itsmyjobtoknow]

Okay, so if both SFC and DISM are unable to repair, then you may have bad sectors on your harddrive. This can be fixed by using CHKDSK in a CMD window. 

BUT! Before you do that, I recommend running HDD Diagnostics. Two good programs for this are Seagate Seatools or WD Data Lifeguard. If the scans say the drives are good then we'll go over the CHKDSK options. But if the diagnostics say the drive is bad, then CHKDSK could cause data loss. 

So try Seagate Seatools or WD Data Lifeguard and report back with the results.

 

I actually have an SSD....and after taking a suggestion from @RH00D post about using Avast and do a boot-up scan...it found no threat but some corrupted files and after that...and fixed it somehow..at least temporarily.

 

But I just did the sfc /scannow and it found corrupted files and "was unable to fix some of them"

 

And then did the dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

 

Which "restored operation completed successfully. The component store corruption was repaired." 

 

So Thank You for your Help...I appreciate it more than you know. 

[itsmyjobtoknow]

 

Not sure what happened, but do the basic system integrity checks. 

 

Open a CMD window as an admin and type the following commands:

SFC /SCANNOW

 

SFC will run and check your Windows System Files for errors. If it finds any, hopefully it can replace them automagically.

 

Once that finishes, run:

 

DISM /ONLINE /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RESTOREHEALTH

 

This checks your component store and attempts to repair those as well.

 

 

 

That really sounds like malware.

 

Keep in mind malware can avoid detection from scanners. It does this be actually moving which file it is hiding in as the scan is happening. So if its in File B and Malwarebytes has finished scanning File A, then it moves itself into File A and Malwarebytes scans File B after the malware has already moved out of it. So Malwarebytes detects nothing even though it is there, just moving around from file to file.

 

Honestly I would try one of those scans that scans prior to Windows boot up, I believe Avast can do those. If that doesn't fix it try restoring to a restore point. If you can't do that then maybe just format and install Windows again.

[RossMadness]

I actually have an SSD....and after taking a suggestion from @RH00D post about using Avast and do a boot-up scan...it found no threat but some corrupted files and after that...and fixed it somehow..at least temporarily.

 

But I just did the sfc /scannow and it found corrupted files and "was unable to fix some of them"

 

And then did the dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

 

Which "restored operation completed successfully. The component store corruption was repaired." 

 

So Thank You for your Help...I appreciate it more than you know. 

 

Awesome. I'm glad everything worked out!