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Max0005
Junior Member
Italy
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 Posted - 04 September 2007 : 15:49:35
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I have a few strange things happening on my computer.
1)The icons of my hard disks where substituted by the "no icon" icon of windows. But the icon of the hd is the same as the External hd which works!!!! So that means the icon IS there but is not beeing displayed. I TRIED to put it back, but it wouldn't work.
2) Sometimes my explorer.exe (im using windows xp home edition service pack 2 updated) just crashes for no apparent reason.
3) When I type in my password at the login screen of windows, the first time it will always give it wrong, even if it's correct.
Does someone know what's going on? |
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daveo
New Member
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Posted - 04 September 2007 : 16:18:39
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| Maybe a virus or spyware. Explorer is having a problem. I would do some anti-virus in depth scans. |
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leatherlips
Senior Member
USA
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 04 September 2007 : 17:21:53
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| I used to recommend Trend Micro's HouseCall, but it hasn't been consistently working lately... when it works its great though. =/ |
Edited by - AnonJr on 04 September 2007 17:22:12 |
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
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MaD2ko0l
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1053 Posts |
Posted - 04 September 2007 : 21:53:11
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| backup all the stuff u need and reformat a few times, it will all be fine then |
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gary b
Junior Member
USA
267 Posts |
Posted - 05 September 2007 : 07:17:06
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Originally posted by MaD2ko0l
backup all the stuff u need and reformat a few times, it will all be fine then
AFTER you re-install all programs and recreate all configuration settings...
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You get these same errors in Safe Mode???
HouseCall is great! [Caution: Opinion!] TrendMicro is best on market![end opinion]
Use Task manager to view running processes. Compare list with what should be running. If you have virus, it will *most likely* show up there. Google any running process you can't identify. If listed as virus/malware, begin clean-up. |
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Max0005
Junior Member
Italy
294 Posts |
Posted - 05 September 2007 : 09:34:03
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Thanks, I'll try those programs/sites you suggested, if they won't work... then I think I'll format. |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
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Posted - 05 September 2007 : 10:32:30
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If you're having trouble ID'ing a particular process, and don't know if its good or not I've found that http://www.processlibrary.com/ has a wonderful list of processes and what they go to. Unfortunately, as I type this it appears to be down.  |
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