What was wrong? (Windows start menu took me to the desktop) 10 points?

Question

Hello,

Recently my computer started acting up. I would select a program from the start menu, and it would open up the Desktop folder, containing everything that is located on my desktop. If I tried opening a browser, it would not open and just open the desktop folder.

If I clicked the browser from the opened desktop folder, it would not open either. I eventually decided to boot in safe mode and do a system restore. Everything seems to be working now, but does anyone have any idea what was up? 10 points.

Answer 1

could be a malware

better to do a full scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Answer 2

Sometimes these little quirks may happen, it happened to me but not on such a grand scale as it did to you. Normally this means that by some random process the shortcut, becomes a shortcut of the desktop folder, which has the shortcut that leads to the desktop folder, (why you couldn't get on the internet)



I don't know how this happens but these are just normal quirks. Happened once to me.



Either that or you had a virus.



+10?

Answer 3

Happened to me when I screwed around in the registry, value probably got corrupted, or was changed by malware or a third party program that was installed

Answer 4

purely press PrtSc/SysRq button and the demonstrate would be copied at history reminiscence . Now open Paint and click Edit in Menu bar and choose paste to stick the copied demonstrate in paint .Now shop the photograph as >jpeg/>jpg in shop As option.