A while back, the PC began freezing and suddenly shutting down. I ran virus scans and at that time, they would show as a clean pc. (also getting ntdll.dll and rundll32.dll errors) Everything I do is saving as an html. If I work on a notepad text document, it creates a copy in a temp folder as an internet shortcut. If I just read something, it still saves into temp as html.
As the problem has been so bad lately, I decided to restore with my emachine restore cd. (did nothing to help)
I then ran more virus scans, but this time, they would shut down or shut down the PC before completion. I again ran restore and even did the load default bios.
That is not the strange problem. The strange problem is that each time I ran restore, the hard drive would seem to get smaller and smaller and now my ram(512 to 480 mb??) is showing less amounts. I used to have 80 gig, now with a newly restored pc and nothing more then windows and the programs emachine restore disk has I have 72ish gigs.
Now for the other weird things! I am on an adsl router (linksys)Originally the 4 computers hooked into the router and were not sharing ANYTHING (not networked). Now, we are suddenly on a shared connection and must use some networking workgroup to connect.
I also notice that if I am running something such as virus scan it shows me using 100% cpu in taskmgr. I can not close some services, if I do, I get an error saying NT AUTHORITY \SYSTEM- RPC service terminated.
When I do control alt delete, and look at processes on taskmgr I see the following items that I can not shut down, it says "Critical System Processes" Csrss.exe, winlogon.exe,smss.exe, svchost.exe and a few other ones.
When I go into services via control panel, some programs which I should be able to close will not allow me too. Either they switch back on or else they do not have a "click-able" button/drop down. A few that I remember are "telephony", "network location awareness", and "Protector Plus Service (UnRegistered)", and "TCP/IP Netbios Helper".
I am sorry this is such a long post, but I am really needing some answers. Again, we were not and did not set up a network, but somehow we now on one and we can not change it or else we lose connection to internet or pc's shutdown.
Also, the winlogon.exe that runs in "high priority", has 107,000+ page faults and 72,756,437 I/O write bytes..do not know why I am adding this in, but it seems very high numbers and caught my eye. again, it will shut my pc off if I close this winlogon.exe saying it is critical to system and nt authority/system is closing windows, rpc service terminated.
Thank you for any help or ideas you may have.
