Ive got this really annoying pop up that comes on when i switch on my PC (Windows XP)It's one of those long thin ones with 4 boxes ..insurance ,pharmacy.etc.It can be closed but i cant get rid of it.When i right click to find out where it's located nothing happens so i don't know what to try next?.I've run Spybot,Ad-Aware,Microsoft Beta,AVG,Mcafee but none of them seem to be able to pick up on it ?This comes on even when i'm not on the internet.
Whenever i start my computer, all i can see is my background. i tried ctrl+alt+delete and that pops up, but nothing else happens. after about ten minutes, it finally reaches the desktop stage. its a 2005 compaq presario with an added wireless adapter card and extra RAM.
When I turn on my computer a little window{1&half inches} appears with a red circle with a cross through it and my computer makes those nasty noises.The box just shows the sign and has and ok box and thats it.Can anyone tell me what it means and if I have to do anything.
For some reason when ever I start up the folder "system32" appears on my desktop. It's not a big deal it's more annoying than anything but I'm sure when I go to START UP what uncheck to stop this from popping up everytime.
I have tried looking for a solution on the web for this and I can’t seem to find anything that quite matches my problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 2500 which is a few years old. I have not recently installed anything new onto it or added new hardware or anything, but the other day i switched it on and it appeard to be starting up fine. The Dell screen comes up, the Windows startup splash screen appears then the screen goes blank. The laptop continues to load properly (i think) as you can hear the start up music and everything loading up, but the screen is blank, (tho the colour of it down change to a slight lighter shade of black!).
I have tried outputting to a different monitor - which does exactly the same as the laptop screen - displaying the start-up stuff then blank screen before the login bit. When i start up the laptop in safe mode and VGA mode it works fine. I have tried changin the resolution in these modes to a lower one 600x800 (the refesh rate is set to 60) but this does not solve the problem. I have installed all recommended XP updates, scanned for viruses and spyware but there’s nothing there, tried to use the troubleshooting tools in Help and Support but not really sure what imdoing and it says everything is fine! sort of hardware failure with my graphics card maybe?! Dont know much about that sort of thing.
So, my boyfriend a Toshiba Satellite A105-S4334 that is running XP Media Center 2002. This morning he woke up and it wouldn't finish booting. It POSTs, it sees the hard drive and the operating system. But as soon as the XP logo appears, the computer reboots. we turned off automatic reboot and got the following error: STOP: 0x0000007B(0xF78AE524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) We cannot boot into safe mode, last known good configuration, cds, or USB, and we don't have a floppy drive. we have tried an XP installation cd, a media center installation cd, and hirens bootcd, and it wont boot into any of them.
I am using XP SP3, Comodo, Avast,Spywareblaster. (AMD Athlond 2600+). When the PC has been on a while, i press Start, Turn Off computer, the dialogue box does not appear and the hourglass symbol appears, I can still access Task Manager, the graph still unfolds and the CPU usage shows 1 or 2 %. After several minutes there is a beep from the pc, and the dialogue box opens, but if I press it, it starts the process again. I have to press the on/off button to shut down. Does not seem to happen if the pc has only been on a few moments.
I keep a clean computer. Every day virus updates and scans, defrags, etc. I probably go overboard to make sure this rig stays healthy.But it's my lifeline to the world. I'm in a third world country with no computer help at all...Barely a connection at time.That being said.3 times now when I boot up the computer runs through it's cycles, goes to the Windows XP page, and then absolutely nothing. Just a blank screen. The same happens even when trying to go to safe-mode or debug. I'm lucky it's even working now.I've saved all my information.
Current problems:A program called PestTrap installed itself and continuously pops up a warning window in the bottom right from the desktop tray.A different icon showed up in the desktop tray that does something similar called MalwareWipe.Something has reset his homepage to securityuptodate.net and any time he changes his homepage, it resets back to securityuptodate.net.There was a popup right as I began looking into the problems he's been having that came up and was talking about a virus called "W32.Myzor.FK@yf" and that apparently his computer is "in danger" and that I should click "OK" to download official Microsoft security updates (or something along those lines).
Using a Toshiba Satellite 1800 Laptop 1GHz Intel P3 - BIOS Ver 1.90 04/18/2002.
The past week or two it seems that the computer locks up, the Task Manager shows the CPU running at 100%. It allows some activity all be it slow & shutting down all programs (which are not locked up) does not stop the activity - including disconnecting the internet. Have run Norton scan, Spybot S&D and Adaware with nothing of significance found. Ran HiJackThis and found some startup stuff and stopped them from running but I don't know enough about the programs that are running to remove them.
Last time I booted I had to force a shutdown after waiting for 15 minutes. Next reboot took 22 minutes for the CPU to back off of 100%. I started Task Mgr very early into the boot, just before the icons started to appear and it showed 33 processes running. I watched as 14 more started up all while the CPU was steady at 100% usage. Then at 5 minutes after booting the processor dropped to 50% bounced around for a minute then went back to 100%. There was some activity through the modem (cable) but not very much. I unplugged the modem power. I shut down Skype, MSN Messenger and MS Defender and about a minute later the CPU dropped to 27%. Nothing of what I shut down appeared to alter anything.
I hope someone can see something...
Here is my latest HiJackThis log
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:09:55 PM, on 8/27/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
When ever I put my flash drive in USB port, my computer shuts down and a blue screen appears, and in that blue screen it says that for protection of computer will be shut down in so and so minute, but when I use the same drive at work I have no problem with the drive neither with computer, Is there anything wrong with my computer?
I believe its a problem with the actual start up button instead of the computer itself, ive pried the thing open, seeing the generator is on, everythings in place and there are lights on, showing there is power. any ideas?
Im new, so bear with me please. The problem is on my old Sony Viao Model PCG-6H4L XP. I wanted to start fresh and the recovery system for windows gives me only a limited number of dates. I thought that the Viao recovery would do the job.I was wrong. I haven't checked recent forums about problems with this, so I went ahead and broke my laptop. Before the Recovery system starts, my laptop says, with a black background.
I have an older somputer I use to Host Games online...seemed fine last few nite .however the last 2 oe 3 times I have started it...it takes forever to start and a screen appears saying sorry for any inconveinince but windows could not start..etc etc..gives options to start in Normal mode safe mode or last known good configuration..wich is what I tried after turning it off and back on again..still nothing..I can get it to start in safe mode....but it wont boot up in normal mode..just hangs at "Windows XP" screen...Its an older Pentium4 Dell Dimension4300.
I am new to this form, so I guess I will just start. I have a,Dell Dimesion p4 2.5 ghz or close?windows XP service pac 2.I use it mostly for college papers and the internet. no gaming.It's about two years old, always do the windows updates.Three days ago my computer was running great. Then for whatever reason it just shut off by itself. I started it back up, it was fine for about 1 day then it shut down. I tried to start it again, but, to no avail.I got a screen that had rows of color bars with numbers in them.I opened up the box, it was pretty dusty, so I cleaned it up.I started to resolve the problem by checking to see if the ram was bad. I took one bar out and tried to restart after each ram chip. the result was the dell logo comes on tries to start no more color bars ( the fan starts out fine then takes off real fast) then it shuts (all power) down. I try, when I power on to tap the f8 key, or f12 key to get into the bios it shuts down befor anything can happen. I think that is it. I want to thank anyone for there time in helping me resolve this problem.
I have two computers with "issues", and now it's gotten so bad, I just need to get them sorted out. This is "my" desktop. I don't think I have had a thread on it before. But my daughter uses it for school and surfing and I have a feeling where my kids surf, it's infecting our computers.
I was using my computer one day when i had been playing a game.I took out the game cd so i could start using different cd for something else but strangely i went to my computer and it still showed the game cd as being in the drive. I thought well no problem ill just restart the computer and it should be fine. I did, and when i logged in, a new problem. All of my desktop was missing, and it had been loading for a few minutes so i just cut it off again and turned it back on in hope that it would finally work correctly. Instead, the opposite happened When i turned it back on for the 2nd time, it went to the screen where it says "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully." So, i have the option of choosing safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with command prompt, last good configuration, or normally. Unfortunately, not a single one of them work.
A few years ago, we had a hard drive on the family computer replaced.At that time, we could turn on the computer, and do everything we normally could.However, it was extremely slow, due to a virus.Best Buy simply recommended a replacement, since the computer was out of warranty.Yesterday I get the bright idea to try that harddrive on my personal computer, not the one it came from. I figured if it only had a virus on it, I could reformat it, and just use it as extra space.So I hook it up, and turn on my computer.The Compaq screen pops up, and goes away.Then a new screen pops up saying that the Hard Drive Failure was imminent, and I should back up my files, and replace the harddrive. That was not the error which I had received a few years ago. It gives me the option to hit F1 for setup, or hit F2 to continue. The F1 key simply took me to the Bios. So I hit F2, and my bootloader booted up. (Ubuntu Linux bootloader with Windows XP. However, I'm thinking about ditching Ubuntu, as I never use it.) However, it was so slow, I wasn't about to continue. After waiting for about 2 minutes, I decided to turn my computer off, disconnect the HD I was installing, and just go back to the old way I had it.(That part of the bootloader should load in about 3 seconds when everything is working fine.)So I turn off my computer, disconnect the power, and rehook everything up as it was before. I turn it back on, and it was as if the old hard drive is still in there.
Every time I try to start my computer (Running Windows XP) it seems to do fine until just before it reaches the log-on screen. A blue screen flashes really fast that says something to the effect of "Physical Memory Dumped". It flashes to fast for me to read it completely, but that's the jist of it. After the flashing screen the computer restarts and continues in that loop.I tried a start up disk from another computer but that didn't do anything.
The folder for My Documents appears to be empty. If I open it, it basically looks like a blank folder. If I open properties>general for it, it shows that it takes up 0 bytes in size/size on disk, and it has "0 Files, 0 folders".
Everytime I open a folder of any kind and click on something this shortcut appears. If I click on this shortcut it says "Windows Script Host" There is no script file specified. What is it and how can I stop it please? Its very annoying. The shortcut is a big "S" and on the bottom it has this written: .VBS;VBE;JS;JSE
The word Webcam appears on my screen then my browser(Chrome) starts and loads tab after tab of a webpage for Logitech webcams. Taps continue to load until chrome crashes. Only then can I regain control of Chrome and the computer. I've tried all the usual antispy tools but nothing finds what is causing this. I do have a wireless logitech keyboard and mouse.
I have the Windows XP home edition operating system on my computer. Just recently when closing down a dialogue box appears with the text: "End Program - sprtmcd.exe" This goes through a little process then I select the "End Now" option and the computer closes down. This has to be done every time now. Everything else seems to be functioning normally as far as I can tell.
Hello all firtst thanks for all the good advice i haved rec'd in the past. ie 7 decided to get me on the ms downloads my bad...went back to ie 6 via add/remove in ctl pnl worked fine now i'm at ie6. A dos window will appear on screen and attempt to download pages to my printer. The name on the window is "C:WINDOWSTEMPWIN3E3-1.EXE. it can only be closed using the end task screen.
My wife brought home a computer from work that was no longer needed. Everything started normally, ran well, but then after updating windows the log on screen appears and now needs a password. Any ideas?
whenever i start my system the lang. bar appears in the taskbar and i have to right -click taskbar, go into toolbars and unselect the language bar. im convinced it's a bug. and it's driving my crazy. how can i fix this?
I get a folder appear each time I start my win XP laptop. It appears on the desktop and has the name of a folder I have deleted a few months ago that was full of mp3 files.
XP Professional has been running fine for years and now it won't shut down, it hangs at the screen. The only way to turn it off is with the power button. I tried to do a restore but when it gets to the point of restart the system won't shut down and the restore fails. I have McAfee installed and have scanned three times with no problems found.
