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[Ayrton 10+ year member]

Well I still have that "back up" copy of your original XP Pro disc. I can always send it back to you.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

We'll talk..I've gotten sidetracked so havent been doing any of this. Lol. Let me do the permissions thing hang on.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

well i have full control under permissions so...

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

Start\Run: Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Find the culprit in there. Delete it.

I very well think this is also in C:\WINDOWS\System 32

Go there.

Right click\Arrange Icons By\Modified

Idk if you have this but try anyways.

Tools\folder options\View Tab\Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items.

Then go to the bottom of the page, look for items that you think are viruses/spyware whatever that were made on the day that your problems started -OR- PRTSCR for me and post the picture here and let me look at it. Then do

Start\Run: Msconfig - make sure it's off in there. When the reboot screen comes up leave it up for a second. Go CTRL+ALT+DEL. Look for any stupid processes running and end them. As long as it isn't a system one you're probably fine. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm use that to search a process to see what it does. After you're sure it's not running, push Restart on the Msconfig thing.

After you restart, run the "HijackThis" program that I gave you, and look for anything -OR- PRTSCR that too for me.

I'll be back later.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

alright..im tired so might not get to it right now but will in morning today though..

under run i found (Default) and it has the same blank under "Data"...this was using regedt32 from system32...

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

tomorrow is day i switch HD's....so yeah

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

So switching HD's didn't work..

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

lol.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

lol.

Thanks for the advice. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

So no one has any ideas? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif