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winserv/sear1
Name: ihatewinserv Date: September 19, 2002 at 00:16:53 Pacific OS: win me CPU/Ram: pent 2/64ram
Comment:
Can someone suggest how I can get rid of winserv.exe? I also have a program called "sear1 MFC application" trying to get past my firewall. Has anyone heard of it before?
Name: Knightz77 Date: September 19, 2002 at 02:32:05 Pacific
Reply:
i had the same problem i went under system tools an then system restore. it restored my comp. to a certain day before i had the winservs im not sure if ya got the same program i do,hope i could help a bit...later
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Response Number 2
Name: ihatewinserv Date: September 19, 2002 at 05:16:16 Pacific
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tried that knightz77. thanks anyway.
More info
in msconfig startup it states that winservs.exe is being loaded from 'startup group'. Can anyone else help me?
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Response Number 3
Name: john Date: September 20, 2002 at 10:08:03 Pacific
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Take a look in the Startup Menu of your profile and the All Users profile (if you're on NT/W2K/XP) Not sure where these are on the 9x series.
You can probably find all of them by right clicking on the Start button and selecting Explore All Users (NT/W2K/XP)
You might also have to ckeck the Run key in the registry (or possible a RUN= somewhere in something like win.ini)
Hope this helps some.
J
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Response Number 4
Name: jimbo Date: September 21, 2002 at 07:35:46 Pacific
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You can't get it out of your start-up menu while the computers running normally. Shut down, and restart in Safe-Mode. It will bypass the start menu, and you can remove it from the start menu successfully.
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Response Number 5
Name: Randy Kaeding Date: September 26, 2002 at 13:20:00 Pacific
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I simply restarted to the MS DOS prompt and dug my way out through several subdirectories until I found the Startup Menu. At that point, I just entered del winservs.exe to blow it away.
To get back to windows, just type exit and press the enter key. Your problems should be gone.
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Response Number 6
Name: Gert Hintze Date: September 27, 2002 at 14:57:18 Pacific
Reply:
You need visit the page www.cexx.org/winservs.htm and there is a very easy removal procedure
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