It's a Lenovo about 15 mos. old, it runs fine once it's on it's just going from sleep to wake.
Also when I start up it doesn't show the "Lenovo" logo with the little circle thing going round.
I'm running McAfee with the crappy windows firewall.
Also I'm on FIOS network if that means anything.
Just would like to add my 2 cents to this thread, I went through the exact same thing but only with the Grandaughter downloading crap, my wife, thank God, has her own laptop/desktop/tablet/smartphone.
My Granddaughter downloaded limewire and screwed up my laptop. But this was when I was running Vista as my OS.
You have 2 options, 1) do a hard reset (you lose all your personal files any new programs you added since you got your puter) this of course is quick and painless, or 2) recover your wanted files but this requires lots of time.
You can do a hard reset by just clicking the F8 key and follow the onscreen instruction for hard reset. But if you want to recover your files hold down shift key + restart that will put you into safe mode. Choose safe mode with networking and do online scans from Kaspersky, or any online scans. Download Malwarebytes...it was mentioned by a member here, great to have and keep it on your 'puter don't get rid of it. I use Spybot search and destroy and Superantispyware, both good and of course free. A good free antivirus that also was mentioned here is Avast, they also have a paid version that works well but what the hay, I like the free stuff that works too. CC Cleaners I stay away from and here's why.
CC Cleaners are just mindless drones that get rid of files that are seldom used to gain space and speed your system up but if a program that you seldom use needs to run, it will have been deleted from the registry causing an imbalance of that program. Putting it another way say you have a building with 10 families that building runs your iTunes and Pokerstars (does it exist anymore?) now you run the ccleaner to get rid of unwanted files it 'sees' you don't use Pokerstars anymore so it got rid of it but it gets rid of the building not the file so now the file for iTunes is gone too, it's better to do a file compression to make up 'space' but if you need to get rid of a corrupted file from the registry but that's nowhere land, you screw up in the registry and bye bye 'puter. Good luck.
On another note:
@Zspy1985 my prayers are with you and Family bro and making a donation to your fund, God Bless.
B4L
That should help.
