Login takes me to C: directory page

All of the sudden, Skype is opening up a C: directory after I submit my log-in credentials.  I cannot open Skype.  I can open my Skype account, but not the call control site / page.  I've uninstalled, reinstalled, cleaned out my regestry and reinstalled - nothing is working.  I'm Windows 7, pentium, 64bit, Lenovo.  Any suggestions would be apprecaited!

I recently gave my old G3 Tower (beige) to a friend who has never had a home computer. She loved it until yesterday! The G3 is running 10.2.8 that I installed (originally it was 8.5, then I went to 10.1 and 9.1 then to 10.2.0 and 9.1 then to 10.2.4 and gave up 9.1 then to 10.2.8. I also upgraded the memory, from 256 to 384 and added a USB 2 port card to take a printer and Zip.
When I was using it all was (mostly) well apart from it occasionally being really difficult to start up if I had shut down for any period of time - I usually just put it to sleep, but if I was away on a business trip I would shut down. I found that resetting the PRAM, holding down the tiny restart button for 10 seconds and reseating the USB board worked - (tedious, but it worked).
My chum called me today in a panic because she is getting the Darwin-BSD console screen. I went over an checked out everything. Did the PRAM routine mentioned above - still the same problem. Worse, the console log in screen does not recognise my log in or password. My 'hands-on' computing background is UNIX - but that was a long while ago, so I tried (what I think is the default) - 'root' as the login + 'password' as the password - but no joy.
Now I'm stuck. Do you think that resetting the NVRAM would work? (first time I've ever heard of this wheeze)
I was going to reinstall the OS, but if I do this my chum will have lose all her files and apps.
Can anyone help me please
Thank you
Patricia

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