My computer got corrupted and it has something to do with vital

#1

I was installing a vital skin, and when I clicked the vital skin and tried to open it with vital, it said something along the lines of “this preset is corrupted”. Then after that, my FL studio froze for a few seconds then crashed. When I tried reopening FL studio, it flickers the vital overlay like it’s trying to open vital…? I tried opening the task manager to see what’s going on but that also flickered the vital shortcut and didn’t open. I also noticed that most of my apps icons are this weird lower quality version of the vital icon. So I tried running a virus scan, but that didn’t work/detect anything. The last thing I want to do is delete all of my vital files including presets and stuff, or COMPLETELY REBOOT my computer, and lose everything. Can someone please help??? Wtf went wrong?

#2

Have you tried turning it on and off again. Also, if the skin you were trying to load was for 1.5.x and you’re on 1.0.x, or vice-versa, that might have caused the issue; Vital changed rendering engines during 1.5

#3

Also some good things for support to know:

  • OS
  • Plugin Version
  • Vital Versoin
  • FL Studio Version
#4

Lol, yes I have tried turning it off and on. Sadly my computer is completely unable to open anything or even open the command prompt. Its a 50/50 chance of what I installed being malicious malware or my system files somehow got corrupted. This has nothing to do with FL studio or Vital anymore. I have tried everything in the book… Spent hours researching on how to fix the problem. The only thing I can do is transfer the important files that I want to keep to a flashdrive and do a full reset on my computer, and reinstall them to the disc drive after. Every time I try to open anything I get an error that says something along the lines of “Windows could not find (whatever the file name of what I was trying to open is). Please locate this file or install it.” Or something. Tried doing a full virus scan that took over 3 hours to complete- still couldn’t detect anything. Tried doing a system restore but that also doesn’t work. Tells me that it could not run the program. I don’t know if I got restricted from my admin access or something but it’s too late now. I will remove this post because it doesn’t have anything to do with vital, sorry for wasting your time.

#5

Oh and also I’m on windows.

#6

Also my op was not very thoroughly explained, nor was my reply. Its a little hard to explain off memory (Im not going to be near my computer for a few days).

#7

Maybe you could try to use a different DAW and then reset Vital there?

If that doesn’t work (probably likely), then you can reset your Vital settings.

Probably this directory: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\vital

In Vital.config you could try chaning “loaded_theme” or you just remove those settings and the skin entirely and see if Vital recreates them (maybe it only does that on a re-install).

#8

Bro…that’s the first thing I did. I’ve uninstalled vital completely. FL studio can’t even open anymore, nothing can. Windows can’t repair or restore itself anymore.

  1. Windows can’t run .exe files

  2. I can’t open or use windows programs (gives me a fake popup that says “windows failed to execute” or something like that.

  3. Can’t go on Google, Bing, Chrome, or internet explorer

  4. All apps have no icon (white box)

I could keep going but I think you get the point. Most of these problems are basically impossible to have unless you have malware or your device. Thanks for the help though, I appreciate it