Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
startup problem
Name: Jason Date: May 23, 2003 at 07:42:08 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Pro CPU/Ram: Celeron 1.70ghz \ 256mb r
Comment:
For some reason, I have idea why, but I clean out the startup with the msconfig.exe I copied to the c:\winnt\system32 folder, and when I reboot it comes back. I will clear it from msconfig, and check win.ini, boot.ini, system.ini and nothing is in there. I go in the registry and make a backup and then delete all the keys that have to do with that and it still comes up. Winhelp.exe comes up and iexplorer.exe comes up when Windows comes up. I dont think this is normal because there are three winhelp.exe files on this computer, and one of them doesnt have an icon, so I deleted it, but im guessing it came back. Please help on how to configure these to NOT come up with startup
Name: bmannix Date: May 23, 2003 at 07:45:34 Pacific
Reply:
winhelp.exe should NOT be loaded automatically during start-up. its probobly a trojan of some sort that just has the name "winhelp.exe" I would delete all instances of this file besides the one located at C:\windows\winhelp.exe
0
Response Number 2
Name: Jason Date: May 23, 2003 at 08:01:22 Pacific
Reply:
everytime I delete it it comes back so there must be another program making it at startup and I cant find out what :(
0
Response Number 3
Name: twocents Date: May 23, 2003 at 09:01:55 Pacific
Reply:
It does sound like you have a Trojan. Try downloading The Cleaner from moosoft (there is a trial version). If there is a Trojan, it'll find and clean it for you. http://moosoft.com/
Hope this helps... Good Luck!
0
Response Number 4
Name: bmannix Date: May 23, 2003 at 10:34:25 Pacific
Reply:
even better is ad-aware http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10186632.html?tag=lst-0-1 it kills files like the one your looking for. try it out
Summary: Hi, Yet another startup problem. At startup I get an error message saying "Project 1 ,run time error 76, Path not found". In the application window of the Task Manager I see four instances of Project...
Summary: Below I will quote a post I made on these boards on May 10th regarding various error messages during Windows startup. It is a bit on the lenghty side (especially including this added info), but I woul...
Summary: Howdy, A friend of mine just upgraded his Win98 to Windows 2000 Pro. Oddly enough, he has been experiencing some startup problems. Whenever he boots, after the POST completes and the system summary is...
Name: Jason
0 
