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Welcome to the QuickBooks Community, qstopautorepair! I will walk you through the process to get this resolved so you can get back to business. In rare cases, the CryptoWall virus and other malicious software can cause Error -6150, -1006 and prevent you from opening QuickBooks. Therefore, we are going to do a few checks.

 

  1. Open the Windows Start Menu.
  2. Type β€œFile Explorer” into search and open File Explorer.
  3. Search for and open your QuickBooks folder. It’s usually on your C: drive.
  4. Look for files that contain words like β€œdecrypt” or β€œinstructions” (.txt or .html).

 

If you don’t see any files that fit this description, your computer is fine. However, if this is not the case let's move on to the next steps.

 

If you recently saved a backup of your company file (QBB), use it to restore your work. Only follow the steps to restore from backup company file if you backed up recently - you’ll lose your work between your last backup and today.

 

If you don’t see Error -6150,-1006 after you restore your backup, everything is fixed and you're good to go. 

 

Let me know how that goes and if the issue persists please reach back out to us! We are here to help. Happy Holidays! 

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