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my computer ended up with a virus sometime last fall.. prob around october and november. my computer is still fine for the most part, but is a little slower and freezes more often, and occasionally won't connect to the internet when you want it to. we dont have the money to take it in to get fixed or buy any software right now so we just deal with it.

well i dont know what has happened, but my itunes is gone. as is limewire. when i try to open itunes, it says "this action is only valid for products that are currently installed." and that's as far as i get. i've tried several times to redownload it from apple.com and for awhile it would get allll the way through the download, but the same pop up would still come up, but now it only gets about halfway through the download and it tells me to install quicktime.. but again, it wont let me! limewire wont open after it's downloaded either. all my music is still on my computer, but i can't access it or update my ipod. i'm losing my mind!!!! how can i get my itunes and limewire to work again? i've uninstalled and reinstalled till i'm blue in the face, and still nothing.

also it won't let me connect my camera either, it like won't read it. so if you can help me there, that'd be great, but my main focus is my music. help?

If I were you I wouldn't trust free anti-virus software. It's usually ad-ware itself. What I would do is a system recovery. When the computer is starting up press either F10 or F11. It depends on what computer you have, but I believe for most computers it's F10 or F11. If not try the other function(F#) keys.



EDIT: You asked me if this would delete your music files.
If it functions like a normal computer, it won't delete any files. It only deletes programs, which may be easily re-installed.
If your music files aren't saved to the hard drive, but they're saved to Limewire or i-Tunes they will be deleted. If you have an MP3 player or some blank CDs save the music to those, and when you do the system recovery just upload(rip) them from the CD/MP3. Then you'd have it on your computer and an external file.




EDIT: I checked my computer, and as the computer is starting up you can either wait or it gives you have to other options. Choose fast and press F12.

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(Rating: 4) will this make me lose all my files such as my music, pictures, documents, etc?
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