A Palm device stopped syncing. When I called up the manufacturer they had me use Hyper Terminal on the PC to try to connect to a diagnostics program on the Palm. Hyper Terminal says that another program has control of COM1. How can I find out what program is accessing COM1? The OS is XP Pro.
View 3 RepliesUpon startup on XP I get a pop up message (photo below) which halts the system until I press eith YES, NO or close the box. I've done Ad-aware, AVG, Panda, and Ewido scans on the PC but everything appears clean. The box itself contains no dialogue, simply two buttons (Yes, No), so its difficult to ascertain what the program (if any) is
View 14 Replies View RelatedI noticed that my screen saver was never running ever after I left my computer unattended for several hours. This is not the problem, but a sympton of what I believe is the main issue. Every couple of minutes a box pops up on my task bar for about a second and then disappears. There is no text in the box so I have no idea what it is. I assume it is some application that is either trying to run or set to check for something periodically. That's why the screen saver is not running I guess. I there anyway to find out what is causing this. I've run Norton Antivirus (clean) and Microsoft Anti-Spyware and Spybot (also OK). I've look at my Task Manager and didn't see anything unusual there. I ran MSCONFIG and disabled any applications (other than system apps and ones that I was familiar with). I cleared out my "Startup" folder. I don't know what else to do to track down this rouge application.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I log into my computer it says that I have 1 program running. It just started doing this and as far as I know, I haven't installed anything new. I ran hijackthis and this is the log:
Running processes:
C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32Ati2evxx.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32Ati2evxx.exe............
Some unknown application is running which causes the Taskbar and window buttons to appear with a mottled green and gray pattern. Changing Windows desktop themes and colors can reset the colors, but then when I start a new application, the screen goes black (indicating the display settings are changing), then comes back with the mottled pattern. I have used various tools to try diagnose what the culprit application
is to no avail. I'm sure its some dumb thing my daughter downloaded knowingly or knowingly. I've used msconfig to stop some programs from loading that I thought would be the cause, but that didn't work.
Recently I've noticed that when I shut down and reboot my desktop computer, there is a program that is not responding to the shutdown command and I have no idea what this program is, where it came from, whether it is spyware, virus, trojan, etc. I am running Windows XP Home edition and the name of the program is this: 7801a2f0-bfbd-40f4-9a8c-06b91134573d I have tried to Google it without any success. If anyone knows what this program is or where it came from, whether or not it is needed on my computer, etc., I would be interested to hear about it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have some sort of program running on the background of my computer that seems to be disturbing any kind of task I try to accomplish on my cpu. It seems to be running every 30 seconds or so for a brief moment and then repeats over and over again. Whenever I try to type, this program or virus clicks off the current window, in which I have to reposition my cursor again back to where it was originally. Even as I type now, I am having to click back onto this editor every 6 or 7 words. I have checked my task manager and cannot find any processes that are running since the only happens and causes a disruption for a brief second. This is very odd and seems to make any task that much more aggravating.
View 5 Replies View RelatedEvery time an explorer window opens, be it internet or windows, the install program for Money starts up. Any ideas how to stop this?
View 4 Replies View Relatedokay i have scanned for viruses using asquared, spybot and trend micro housecall, so i dont think its viral, but that blooming autoplay box keeps poping up, wont tell me what its trying to autoplay but will pop up every five seconds making it impossible to do anything.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am running Win XP Pro SP2. Every 15 minutes or so an unknown program opens itself and then closes. The only thing displayed on the screen is on the start bar. Right next to my currently open programs (or at the beginning if nothing is open) there appears what looks like an open program except with just the white box that is standard for windows when the program (or .exe file) doesn't have an icon. I have searched my PC with AVG antivirus and with both Windows Antispyware and Adaware SE. Nothing was found. I don't notice any other problems with the pc. It's just a very annoying thing that I would like to resolve.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI found something in my Add/Remove Programs called "My Way Search Assistant", which I removed - evidently successfully,as there is no trace of it in registry or programs. My problem is, however, the entry in Add/Remove remains but only with the name "My Way Search Assistant" and when I click on it all that shows is "Used Rarely"It has no size and no longer has any option to change or remove.I have looked for registry entries there are none is there a program listed.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI just noticed a DivX entry in the Add/Remove Programs list and in the C:Program Files folder. I have not been to the site and downloaded and installed any codecs. How would it have gotten there? The only programs that I have recently installed are Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.0.3.363. Sony Picture Package 1.5 (the software that allows me to view and copy video from my new Sony Handycam DCR-TRV480 camcorder to my computer) The Divx.dll file shows version 6.0.0.1571 and a modified date of 07-15-2005 and shows it to be associated with DivXNetworks.
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy work colleagues is having trouble with a slow-running computer i thought I'd look at her startup options and make sure there isn't something running that doesn't need to be. I ran msconfig and looked at what she had going at startup, but only the necessary items were checked there. So I took a look at the services panel, using a list from blackviper.com to make sure her computer's settings matched up with those recommendation. However, one of the services listed isn't on the blackviper.com list: Winkcpw. Nor did I get any hits for the name of the service on either Google or using Yahoo search. I'm wondering if anyone here knows what the program is and whether it should be running at all.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOccasionally, as with this file, when I Google it or look for info elsewhere, I can find NOTHING. I mean, "no matches meet your search criteria." This one is: ost1f144.exe. Anyone out there know what this little bad boy is? It's shown as being in WindowsSystem32. Think I'll uncheck it for the time being.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to open up the event viewer in administrative tools Iget the message "Unable to complete operation on event viewer the interface is unknown" I have run boot scans and every other scan but nothing works. Ihave windows xp with servicepack 3 Is this some kind of virus in system memory? "please help me figure this one out"
View 9 Replies View RelatedI keep hearing very weird noises out of my computer. - Which I thought was adaware or something.The noises are occurring more and more frequently, and new noises seam to be appearing now!)I have run f-secure, AVG, super anti-spyware, malware bytes, and possibly more.I have done a HJL (and had it checked - found nothing), and used task manager, and process explorer to try and find what is running, and found nothing
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a windows 2000 network with xp clients.I have had some instances with names not being correct when you do an nslookup on them for example if I ping auser I will get back a 1.1.1.1 however if I Ping 1.1.1.1 -a I get xpe00806420e241 which is probably from the image install where is the issue?
View 1 Replies View Related1000wat power supply Q9550 Core ATI HD5770 WD Velociraptor G. Skill 4gig Ram
Now to the question: This mostly happens when I use the pc for gaming and yes my rig does meet the recommended requirements and exceeds them. So as I'm playing on randomly my game freezes up completely!! I cant ALT+TAB nor CTRL+ALT+DEL...only thing left is for me to do is to restart the computer. Any ides WHY this is happening? Is my Ram or VID card faulty?
i have an unknown filename in my drive c: i dont know if its safe to delete it or not so i wanted and if its bad i pls helped me remove themthe first filename is DBI.exe and when i tried to open it another filename being mad which is BIOSLOCK
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow can I get rid of RUN DLL? I get this message: Error Loading C: Progra~ |MYWEB ~|ar2.bin MYSBAR ~|.DLL on my desktop at startup. I went to Internet Explorer>Tools>Manage Add-Ons and disabled the MYWEB program. Then I went to control panel>Add or Remove Programs and tried to uninstall the MYWEB Popular Screensavers program but it would not let me. It said the specified module could not be found. I'm running Windows XP Home Edition.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn the last few days the User Accounts logon screen has been coming up after being away from the computer for a time. As I am the only person to use this computer my logon (as administrator) is the only one there and clicking on it will bring me back to the desktop.
I felt this was an unnecessary step and went into the User Accounts in the Control Panel to change this. In there I noticed a Password Protected Limited Account called 'ASP.NET Machine A...'. Is this a normal part of Windows XP or something else?
I have been using Add/Remove icon in Control Panel to remove programs. Although the Win2k Pro is running fine ,the icon of Add/Remove Program is not opening the next window to remove the programs.
windows xp general. it doesnt appear.so i dont know what the reason can be. could it be that my post is too long (is one page word long)? so the forum doesnt take it?....
Can anyone tell me what to get rid of, if anything. My pc is running extremely slow.
I have a few unknown items in my Programs list. I am afraid to launch any of them to see what they are.
Acez SiteError
I.R.I.S. OCR registration
Remote Assistance
Software Setup
Printme Internet Printing
I'm using Win XP SP2 . I installed a second CD rom drive which was obviously no good because it caused the other one which is perfectly ok to show up in the bios as an unknown device. Both showed up in the bios as unknown device but the the first still showed up in system hardware the second one didn't.I removed the second one from the computer and the first one then showed up accordingly in the bios as the proper device but the bios is still saying the second one is an unknown device. Every time I start my computer I get the message secondary device missing press the F1 key to continue.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHello all, I remember reading in a computer magazine about some website that is able to determine an unknown file by entering the name of that file into its text box. I think it is able to determine what kind of file it is.The problem is I cannot remember what the website is called.
I have a serious problems with deleting some files and folders in my hard drive.
Some Details:
Operating System : Windows XP Pro SP3 V.3180
Anti Virus Program : Kapersky Internet Security 7.///
this files and folders created by no one and take 43 GB of my hard disk Space
Is there a way to find out what programs that are associated in msconfig.Some are recognizable, and others, don't know or won't seem to disable?dumprep 0-k %stemroot%system32dumprep 0-k (dash is a small dash seemingly attached to the k)I don't recall this one, and tried to disable it with no luck.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI reformatted a laptop and install XP for someone as they were having a lot of problems with it and I thought this would be the best way to go as alot of program stopped working. Anyway, after installing it, I still found that I couldn't installed the games he claimed were working before something went wrong and I determined it was the graphics card. I was even more sure when I noticed how poor the refresh rate was (scrolling up/down on web pages and playing games).
So I went to device manager to find out what the card was and install the latest drivers (he doesn't have the drivers for sound/video). But display adapters are not shown in device manager and I went through display -> settings -> advanced and it didn't tell me what card or driver was in there, all the information wasn't there. So any idea's as to how I can work out what card is in this laptop?
Just put together my new system and all is working well, but I am left with this unknown exclamation in the "device manager". I can't figure out what it is.
The only thing device manager says is,Location: on PCI standard ISA bridge The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28) and in the conflicting device list it says Memory Range FED00000 - FED00FFF not available.