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Shroomism
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Random comp problems and ctrl+alt+del not functioning
#5713829 - 06/05/06 02:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ok so I'm pretty sure limewire fucked with my system. I installed it, and then when I went to close it, it would keep automatically re-opening itself. I could find no way to make it stop, so I just uninstalled it.
Well shortly thereafter, I discovered that ctrl+alt+del does nothing.. no task manager, no hourglass thing.. nothing. Running taskmgr.exe directly brings up an error saying "another program is using that file". I'm also getting some random error when I shut down the system.
I've tried a ton of things. Did the standard ad-aware, spybot, AVG, a-squared, etc.. scans. Found a malware or two and got rid of it. Ran hijack this!, fixed what I thought was a browser hijack. Deleted the winupdates folder. Deleted all my temp files. (this was following the advice on a tech forum of people having a similar problem) .. still didn't fix it. Tried that same process in safe mode. Still nothing. Tried a bunch of other stuff I don't remember.
So I did the infamous dreaded windows reinstall. Same problem.
Now my keyboard is acting kind of funky. The ' key brings up a search sometimes, Home and End keys don't work half the time. I seriously doubt it's my keyboard or drivers or something. CTRL, ALT and DEL all work perfectly fine on their own.
Anyone of you gurus have a solution that doesn't involve reformatting the hard drive or switching to linux?
Oh yeah.. and ctrl+alt+del works in safe mode.
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ManianFH
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Re: Random comp problems and ctrl+alt+del not functioning [Re: Shroomism]
#5713898 - 06/05/06 03:23 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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not sure if lime wire fuked me too, but for the first time on my comp, and right after i installed that prog, my sound card stopped working, it is constantly applied to another application, which is nonthing...
lime wire...??
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Shroomism
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Re: Random comp problems and ctrl+alt+del not functioning [Re: ManianFH]
#5713993 - 06/05/06 05:32 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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hmm... not sure why now after making this thread.. but I fixed it.. after 6 straight days of toiling with this.
By following most of the directions here - http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic17297.html
and using this - http://www.ewido.net/en/
Ewido caught a bunch of stuff that ad-aware, spybot, AVG, etc, didn't. Found a couple trojans Dropper.VB.lu and Worm.VB.dw
and fuck limewire, by the way.
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