A FRIEND of mine did a rutine SYSTEM restore on my windows vista because he changed a few settings he didn't like and now I can not run any programs other than internet explorer, notebook and just a couple other simple programs. He can't remember what date he used for the system restore either and now it has been a couple of months.

Now when I turn on my computer, it takes 10 min to click on all the "This __________ program is not working". I can't run office, I can't run quicken, I can't run anything really.

What do I do? PLEASE help a lady! Hello Kennedy. A couple of things. First, if it's been a couple of months the restore point is GONE. Second, it sounds like you have other issues. Have you run a full scan with BOTH your anti virus utility AND MalwareBytes? If not, I suggest you do so.yes, I have run both and it came up with nothing serious. PLUS i had antivirus software running ever since I got the computer and before he ran the darn restore, everything was running just fine...It seems to be more of a missing driver (scuse my ignorance if that is not the right verbiage) or missing something that is making it so none of these programs can start for some reason....Well, you can boot to the Vista CD and do a repair, but I don't know that it will help. It will, however, make sure all system files are in place. ok, I will give it a shot. If it doesn't work, what would you suggest?
Come back and let's go from thereThanks so much! Sure. I won't be around much longer tonight but there are plenty of bright folks here willing to help. I'll CHECK back in the morning.