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rebooting and active desktop recove
Name: knows too little Date: January 26, 2005 at 13:06:40 Pacific OS: win 2000 pro CPU/Ram: celeron
Comment:
system boots up to desktop. Message comes up that says active desktop recovery. Before I can do anything it reboots. Gets to same spot again and continues to reboot. Can boot in safe mode. Ran Norton and no viruses were found. Ran ad ware and got rid of a bunch of mess. Ran spybot and got rid of some more. Not sure what has been added to desktop recently. Child uses this particular computer. Help!!!!!!
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