Hello.
I'm having an issue opening my msconfig or regedit. After I click to open it, I get the loading icon for a few seconds, but nothing ends up happening. After doing so, my start menu locks up and I can't even get back into my run prompt or anything else for that matter, and I have to shut down my pc by using ctrl+alt+del. Briefly before my PC shuts down, I see an error screen come up that says "too many 16 bit applications are open to open regedit, close some before trying again" And I've went through in safe mode and turned off as many startup applications as I can see that I don't need, but the error is still happening in normal startup. I can only modify things in safe mode, which doesn't help me in the long haul. I've tried running malwarebytes, nothing gets found. I'm at a loss here. I reckon theres probably a virus of some sort, but its definitely not being picked up by my scans.
I should also note that even trying to uninstall some applications through my uninstall screen in the control panel, it ends up locking up during that as well. Then I get a message saying "please wait for the current application to uninstall before doing another one" But the current one never does end up uninstalling. So I'm confused. Please help! Thanks.
I'm having an issue opening my msconfig or regedit. After I click to open it, I get the loading icon for a few seconds, but nothing ends up happening. After doing so, my start menu locks up and I can't even get back into my run prompt or anything else for that matter, and I have to shut down my pc by using ctrl+alt+del. Briefly before my PC shuts down, I see an error screen come up that says "too many 16 bit applications are open to open regedit, close some before trying again" And I've went through in safe mode and turned off as many startup applications as I can see that I don't need, but the error is still happening in normal startup. I can only modify things in safe mode, which doesn't help me in the long haul. I've tried running malwarebytes, nothing gets found. I'm at a loss here. I reckon theres probably a virus of some sort, but its definitely not being picked up by my scans.
I should also note that even trying to uninstall some applications through my uninstall screen in the control panel, it ends up locking up during that as well. Then I get a message saying "please wait for the current application to uninstall before doing another one" But the current one never does end up uninstalling. So I'm confused. Please help! Thanks.