In San Diego today I found a computer with this problem. I've seen the Program Files list be shortsighted a few times now after a malware infection. In this case, CCleaner had the full list of actual programs installed!
Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair
Who knows!?!?! Everything is all cleaned out of the shop and the phone number and website have been down for days. www.chipsandmemory.com Anyway, we don't know too much about them other that they were around for a long time and had a pretty good reputation. If anyone either knows what happened or needs similar services, let us know!
Kurt Rein
Mobile Computer Wizard
San Diego Computer Repair
858-345-0382
We had a San Diego client with a relatively new PC experience hard drive failure. The drive behaved well enough for us to attempt to clone the hard drive to a replacement to avoid a multi-hour re-setup. The cloning process went through as well as expected, but after booting the PC with the new freshly cloned drive, I ran into a stop error: 0xc0000225
This is related to the Windows boot configuration in relation to UEFI enabled machines. It is resolvable with a quick trip to command prompt via the Windows 8 "Repair your computer" options that can be accessed from the appropriate Windows 8 disc.
Enter the advanced options until you see an option to startup Command Prompt. Once that opens, enter the following:
After that, restart the PC. In many cases, it may prompt for which Windows 8 install to boot into. After making the correct selection (no harm in being wrong here, restart and try the other option), Windows should boot up. My experience was that the first time booting was slow, but after a restart, it performed normally.
Cleanup: If you don't do the following, you may have Windows prompt for which install to boot to everytime you restart. Once you are in Windows, go to the MSCONFIG menu and remove the erroneous Windows 8 option from the Boot tab. After that is done, the PC will boot cleanly.
I ran into this virus on a Windows 7 PC Computer in San Diego. dllhost runs in multiple instances and ultimately a fairly new computer ran terrible. I threw just about every cleaning utility at it but really the only one that killed it was Combofix. Solved and I was amazed at how well the PC ran afterwards.
San Diego Computer Repair
Here's a few websites that will check DNS, CNAMES, A records, etc.
http://mxtoolbox.com/
http://network-tools.com/ or http://nwtools.com/
www.whatsmydns.net
The last one checks around the world!
Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair
I had an awful adware infection this morning and AdwareMedic was the answer. Removed all traces of hidden extensions and adware.
Homepage : http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php
Added it to Dropbox\_Mac Apple folder
