Sounds like human activity more than a computer.
How about going to a past starting point when things worked and go from there.?
EBay should be platform agnostic. You might have to re-enter your logon and password, but the computer shut down wouldn’t have disabled your account with them. While it is possible your account was hacked, your computer didn’t ‘close the account’.
As for surfing, why do you need an account for that? (Your internet browser obviously works since you are logged on here).
Do you use a password manager that malfunctioned? Do you mean that a user id has disappeared, and you can only log on to your computer as administrator?
There’s no need to fear! Freeper geeks are here!!!
My mom ran into this a couple of years ago:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947215
Could be bad harddrive, could be malware. Restore points can be your friend too.
BKMK as I have had this issue too.
Cutting power when the computer is writing to the HDD will do things like that.
Here’s how Microsoft says to fix the error:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947215
But I would first try to run System Restore and go back before the issue started, to save yourself a lot of headaches.
Also, I would definitely run virus and malware scans if things were being downloaded without you initiating it.
corrupt profile.
To choose a restore point, follow the below steps:
From the Start menu, type: Restore in the Search programs and files dialog box.
From the list of results, click System Restore.
In the System Restore window, click Next.
From the list of restore points, select the Date and Time you wish to restore from.
As mentioned, shutting down power to computer will cause this sometimes- Heck, I’ve had it happen just shutting down normally, then restarting, and noticing I’ve been logged out of all my websites I visit (which I keep logged in for as long as possible by checking off the ‘keep me logged in’ box)
It’s not a big deal to me really, as I only use special passwords for site I buy from, or have sensitive info on- and use generic easily remembered passwords for everything else-
I run a program called RollbackRX which is like system restore, only much better- I’ve got restore points from a few years ago that I can go back to if I want, and I can run it BEFORE windows starts incase a virus fubars the operating system- If worse comes to worse, I just do a rollback, and usually everything is back to normal
Never thought I’d use ‘restore points’ but my daughter accidentally clicked an “Upgrade to Windows 10” ad and I had to use that feature.
Worked pretty well.
You are getting some helpful responses, bfl.
Log in with an administrative account. Navigate to c:\users. Find your corrupted profile folder(s) within. Copy all of your documents from the corrupted profile(s) to a separate location(s). Delete the account(s) with the corrupted profile(s). Restart the machine. Re-Create the corrupted account(s). In so doing, you’ll create a new profile from the default user profile. Log off. Log in as the re-created account(s). When the new profile(s) look good, bring the data back into the respective profile(s) from the separate location. For browsing safety, do NOT grant administrative access to the new user profiles - make them users only. Keep your administrator account separate from browsing and only use it for machine configuration changes, software installs, etc.. Malwares and viruses will be reduced dramatically if they are encountered by an account that does NOT have administrative access to the machine.
Dude. NEVER directly cut power to a modern PC. The only save way to shut them down is the click the shut down command in the windows menu. Just yanking power will damage things ALMSOT EVERY TIME! All sorts of background stuff is going on that should not be interrupted. PCs power themselves off in their own sweet time if you just click the shutdown command.