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Name: Dusty Date: April 19, 2002 at 01:57:43 Pacific
Comment:
I had a sharewhare program that didnt work so I deleted it. Well It left something behind that makes the IE browser to pop up with a closed Russian website. It pops up on the start up. Plus sometimes up to 4 times in an hour. Even when I dont have the browser open.
Can anyone help? Or tell me what the start up files in XP are so I can try to disable it that way?
Name: Merlin Date: April 19, 2002 at 02:27:18 Pacific
Reply:
Goto www.cnet.com and download something called Adware run the program and it'll remove it for you.
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael G. Date: April 19, 2002 at 06:28:38 Pacific
Reply:
I been to alot of xp site and I was told that you can disable all of the start up items without effecting the operation of your system. If you need some of them running you can place a check on what you want to run at start up. this will also speed up your boot process. You can do this by going to run on your start menu and type in msconfig then select the start up tag. reboot and this should help.
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Summary: She has Ad-aware so I did run that, but its still there on startup. I shall get her to download Spybot and try that first then a squared. Thanks for your help. I will post again if it works or not....
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