Thanks very much for all your help.
Problems now solved - clean Windows 7 HP SP1 64-bit installed.
Just a bit of a TL;DR summation for people having similar problems
- desktop.ini Trojan caused Windows Explorer to crash on boot (incld. in Safe Mood)
- Booted Ubuntu from USB in order to back-up files
- Created Windows 7 recovery disk from Windows 7 laptop - used Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder 2.0.8 to find serial key.
- Formatted harddisk and installed Windows 7.
- Problem solved, machine running much faster now as well!
Problems now solved - clean Windows 7 HP SP1 64-bit installed.
Just a bit of a TL;DR summation for people having similar problems
- desktop.ini Trojan caused Windows Explorer to crash on boot (incld. in Safe Mood)
- Booted Ubuntu from USB in order to back-up files
- Created Windows 7 recovery disk from Windows 7 laptop - used Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder 2.0.8 to find serial key.
- Formatted harddisk and installed Windows 7.
- Problem solved, machine running much faster now as well!
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Desktop Li 3740
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200
- Memory
- 3072 DDR/800 MHz
- Graphics card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS (512MB)
