Launching Applications Locking Up At Every Startup?
Feb 11, 2007
I bought Vista since I figure I need to do a reformat and used this as an excuse to jump on the vista bandwagon,but here is my challenge with XP.This started about 2 weeks ago...when I launch Adobe Photoshop and go to open a file the program locks up and I can sometimes end the program and other times I need to reboot. I deleted and reinstalled the program and the same thing happened during the installation process. I downloaded a free picture editor (Faststone) and the same thing is happeneing. I also had lockups using the add/remove programs in control panel.
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Jan 15, 2008
My main pc is running XP mostly, and has started locking up while using different applications. I have watched it with Task Manager and Process Explorer and I don't see anything out of the ordinary running. So far I have watched Ad-Aware SE, Spybot Search & Destroy, Nod32 and Sonicstage omg. lock up while in use. Is there some way to set up a log file that will tell me what is happening when XP locks up. I would like to have more info on the reason for the problem.I can reinstall but I would really like to understand what is going on. This has never happened to me before.
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This has happened two days in a row now. I log into my account, then when it gets to my desktop, all it shows is my desktop background picture. There are no applications running and there are no startup icons that I can click on. I have to force a restart on my laptop, and then when it starts up again everything is there.
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I always use firefox and yet,without me even having clicked internet explorer I see it launched twice in the processes.When I click end process it appears twice and then does not for another half an hour to forty five minutes. I think it was a virus my smaler brother installed but since my father also uses this computer for his work, I cannot ask him to format and reinstall Can I find out what program launches Iexplorer.exe
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May 26, 2005
A friend of mine asked me to look at his computer, after he was noticing a significant slow down in system processes etc. Its a 3 yr old Dell, 1.79gHz with a 30 gig HD and 256 megs of memory, running WinXP Home Edition. He never really knew much about computers, and as I discovered, he hadn't run his virus checker in almost 2 1/2 years, so that was certainly a dead giveaway that he was having problems.I managed to get AdAware and SpySweeper loaded onto it and ran them both, between the 2 programs I was able to wipe out a good majority of the cookies, the spyware and malware, however when I rebooted, the system immediately slowed down as soon as the desktop appeared and then ground to a halt entirely. The mouse moves, but that's it. I'm unable to Ctrl+Alt+Del, in order to shut it down I have to unplug the power cord, since it doesn't have a reset button.
I haven't yet been able to run HiJackThis! on the computer, I'm hoping running it in safe mode might afford me the ability to do that, but since I'm unable to decipher what it says, I'm going to be needing assistance on that level as well.
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If you want the 2k lock box, but not the 2k login box then go to User Accounts and click "Change the Way Users Logon or Off" then uncheck Fast User-Switching but not Welcome Screen. This will leave you with the beautiful XP start-up and shut-down screen but also give you the professional lock box.
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Jul 5, 2008
I have windows xp home and I am having a problem with my pc locking up constantly I am always using cntr alt delete to free it up I have a dell intel pentium 4cpu 2.53 ghz 1gig memory 300gig hd I have plenty of space the pc seems to run ok except for the freeze ups I am a rookie on the computer.
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Feb 24, 2008
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I am operating Windows 2000 XP on an almost new Dell and my computer keeps locking up. I can be in the middle of a program and suddenly the screen will turn blue with diagonal lines all over it. There are no error messages that come up nor have I had any in the past. The power button will not respond when I push it so I have to physically unplug my hard drive from the wall outlet to reboot. It used to only happen once a month but lately it's been once a week.
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Oct 18, 2005
I don't know if it spyware or a virus but somethings going on. Please review my log:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1Scan saved at 10:01:04 PM, on 10/18/2005Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)Running processes:C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32csrss.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32services.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exC:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exC:WINDOWSSystem32alg.exeC:Program Filesewidosecurity suiteewidoctrl.exeC:WINDOWSSystem32 vsvc32.
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Aug 12, 2007
i have just loaded my computer with a dual boot system both XP Pro on 2 seperate H/D H/D, 1 = Work
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My Question is when i boot into My HOME computer i can still access the Work H/D.
is there a way i can lock this hard drive so it is only asccessably when i autually boot into it. (i guess like trying to make the whole H/D Private - like how you can make your document private. i would like to do this to the whole H/D.
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May 5, 2005
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May 21, 2005
I can't for the life of me figure out how to turn this function off. Every 15 minutes or so, if left idle, the computer goes to this screen that says "Unlock Compter" and below it says "This computer is in use and has been locked".How in the world can I turn this function off?!? It is annoying me to no end!
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Aug 26, 2006
I got a laptop back in January, and everything on it was running fine and fast, but as of late, it's been running a little bit slower, and it locks up completely quite a lot now, meaning I have to crash and restart, just to make it do anything. It's windows XP on a HP Pavillion dv1000 laptop. There's still a huge amount free on the hard drive, I think there's about 75% free. I use mcafee internet security suite, spybot S&D, registry mechanic and adaware se personal edition. Adaware, Spybot and registry mechanic say that everything is running normally, but when I run a virus scan on mcafee, it always stops at the same point. It freezes at something like 3759 files, which is something sharedmetadat infected.dat, which I think is something to do with the windows live messenger. Quite often, the computer will be running fine for long periods of time, but when I try to do some things, like a virus scan, its slows right down, or completely crashes.
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Aug 23, 2009
I recently formated my computer and reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP3 on my Western Digital SATA 500 GB hard drive that I had been previously using as a Slave in another computer. All has worked well untill I tried to defrag my computer. The hard drive is split into two paritions C: drive is an 80 gig partion with D: being 385 GB parition. When I tried to defrag my hard drives, (starting with the D: drive) it got to 68% then locking up. Since then when trying to defrag the D: drive it promptly locks up when it reaches 3% complete. Windows does not lock up when doing a scan disk on either parition however.I installed the western digital life guard tools to which in informed me that support for large hard drives over 137 GB was not fully enabled and asked if I wish to enable it. I said yes for it to enable it and it rebooted and tried to defrag D: drive again, with the same locking up happening at 3%.
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