My PC was working great !!

[JZaun]

"RANT ON "

I hear you CDS!!!!

Last spring after a viscious virus / adware/spware attack I totally reloaded my software and put in anti everything!!!Plus Norton firewall and changed to Mozilla Firefox brouser. It was working perfect. I run all anti programs weekly and have found no new virus / other bad programs.
I have a P4 2 gig proc with a Intel main board. Everything less than 1 year old.

Now all of a sudden.

1. It started bypassing the user sign on page. It goes straight to windows. I didn't mind this but WHY?

2. I have a USB 2 card reader. It will read a CF card fine 2-5 times than it quits. I have to unplug it and re plug to get the system to recognize it, WHY

3. I go to shut down. I click start, turn off computer, I click turn off and it restarts itself. It will do it different every time. I had to go through a turn off 5 times the other night and each time it re started . Finally I unpluged the durn thing. It worked ok the next time..WHY

4. I go to load a game. The game normally comes up in demo If I don't select a load. At times It will load the game 5-8 times, the system is taken over by multiple demos and won't let you ctl Alt Del and stop the application. Have to unplug. WHY

There are other agrivations I just cannot remember them now. Sometimes I just want to take this box to the dump and start over. But today it is working fine :? WHY

Yep its a PC Personal pain in the Colon

Can't live with it, can't live without it!! Spent all my money on camera gear so I really can't afford a new PC!!!

JZ

"RANT OFF"

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[Jon]

Have you (or anyone else who has access to your machine) installed anything recently? Have you been updating your antivirus and antispyware programs regularly (they may come out with updates as frequently as daily)?

[JZaun]

Have you (or anyone else who has access to your machine) installed anything recently? Have you been updating your antivirus and antispyware programs regularly (they may come out with updates as frequently as daily)?

No new programs and updates are auto, so I get them as soon as they happen... I even run extra scans on all anti programs.. computer appears clean..

JZ

[Jesper]

Regarding auto-logon (you don't get the logon screen, it goes directly to your desktop):

With the Windows XP PowerToys (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) you can change this. Install the PowerToys - with the program Tweak UI you can change some "hidden" settings, and one of the things you can change is if Windows should logon automatically or not.

[JZaun]

Regarding auto-logon (you don't get the logon screen, it goes directly to your desktop):

With the Windows XP PowerToys (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) you can change this. Install the PowerToys - with the program Tweak UI you can change some "hidden" settings, and one of the things you can change is if Windows should logon automatically or not.

Thanks for the link. I knew about this and had the PC shop where I originally bought the components set it up that way. But after reloading a full version of XP I didn't set it up to bypass the user screen it just did it itself! I don't have Power toys loaded :?

JZ

[Jon]

NAV's auto-update capabilities have been known to fail. You might try 1) manually updating and 2) going to Symantec's site and running their on-line AV scanner. Also try pulling down Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de) or Spybot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org) if you haven't already. Different anti-spyware routines can miss different infestations.

[JZaun]

NAV's auto-update capabilities have been known to fail. You might try 1) manually updating and 2) going to Symantec's site and running their on-line AV scanner. Also try pulling down Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de) or Spybot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org) if you haven't already. Different anti-spyware routines can miss different infestations.

Done all of the above plus Mcafee!!

JZ