After allowing chkdsk to run my wife’s computer developed major problems. I happened to be watching as she booted up and chkdsk asked to run, and when she allowed it went on to delete several hundred “corrupted indexes” referencing to “File 9.” Now, as Windows loads several error messages appear that MSASCui.exe, IAANOTif.exe, WLTray.exe faile to initialize properly, and iTunesHelper was not installed correctly. Most programs including all web browsers (Chrome, IE, Mozilla) all fail to run. Control Panel opens but all the tools fail to run.(i.e Backup-Restore, Remove Programs, etc.) Inserting a thumb drive causes error messages that “Rundll is not configured or you don’t have permission” but the drive loaded and I was able to copy files to it.
Oddly (perhaps?) Excel, Word, and other MS Office programs still run without problems.
She said chkdsk had asked to run the previous evening and she declined but it had continued to browse the internet okay.
Any suggestions are appreciated. I have not attempted to recover using the recovery partition and hope to avoid that because she had MS Office installed via her previous job and will lose it.
This is a Dell Inspirion 1525 intel dual core with 3GB running Vista Home Premium version 6.0 SP2.
Thanks