Lost on the Naughty Laptop
June 3rd 04, 08:18 PM
I posted several weeks ago and received valuable help from
good old Heirloom
Adaware-Did it and deleted all the bad guys...
CW Shredder- updated it and ran it...not sure what to do
next
Antivrus-I stopped being cheap and renewed Norton Internet
Security.
McAffees Stinger- Ran it
Ultimate Troubleshooter- ran it and fixed some startup
issues
Remaining issues-
Still can not locate the office tool bar, it does not even
try to load now...
Computer is locking up with various "hksserv not
responding" or hp printer startup files lock it up.
Any suggestions besides smashing the laptop to bits?
_____________________________________
See below for history-
Okay...I will get to work!
My subscription to Norton Internet Security just
expired...I will renew it.
Thank you, Heirloom.
>-----Original Message-----
>Download CWShredder, free, from
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>Update it and run it.
>
>Then get Adaware6, also free, from www.lavasoft.de .
Once again, update it
>and run it.
>
>All this is with the assumption that you have a running
antivirus with
>up-to-date definitions.....if not........GET ONE! Also,
you may want to
>get and run McAfee's Stinger, also free.
>
>Oh yeah, when everything is cleaned up, check one or more
of the following
>sites on how to trim your startup axis......you would be
amazed at how much
>this will help your PC.
>http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
>http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
>http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
>http://ww2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
>http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
>http://www.greatis.com/regrun3appdatabase.htm
> Heirloom, old and do it all
sometimes maybe if I
>can
>
>
>"Lost on the Naughty Laptop"
> wrote in
>message ...
>> I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows ME.
>> 1) When I start up, the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
will
>> open, but not respond ( CTRL ALT DEL to get to task
>> manager and see that it is not responding)
>> 2)I have about 20-25 different items listed in the task
>> manager as running...however I have not opened any
>> applications, I just turned the machine on. I have to
>> close half of them to "unlock" the computer.
>> 3)My programs options from the start button are missing
>> things like Accesories-defrag, etc...Where they went who
>> knows!
>> In order to perform scan disk, I had to go into safe
mode
>> and let it scan disk last night. I plan to scan disk on
>> my d drive as well tonight and defrag both as well...in
>> safe mode.
>> What else should I do? Should I do a restore? Not sure
>> what exactly this does, but I do not want to lose my
>> existing software programs I have loaded or files...
>> Any help would be appreciated...
>> Lost on the Naughty Laptop
>
good old Heirloom
Adaware-Did it and deleted all the bad guys...
CW Shredder- updated it and ran it...not sure what to do
next
Antivrus-I stopped being cheap and renewed Norton Internet
Security.
McAffees Stinger- Ran it
Ultimate Troubleshooter- ran it and fixed some startup
issues
Remaining issues-
Still can not locate the office tool bar, it does not even
try to load now...
Computer is locking up with various "hksserv not
responding" or hp printer startup files lock it up.
Any suggestions besides smashing the laptop to bits?
_____________________________________
See below for history-
Okay...I will get to work!
My subscription to Norton Internet Security just
expired...I will renew it.
Thank you, Heirloom.
>-----Original Message-----
>Download CWShredder, free, from
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>Update it and run it.
>
>Then get Adaware6, also free, from www.lavasoft.de .
Once again, update it
>and run it.
>
>All this is with the assumption that you have a running
antivirus with
>up-to-date definitions.....if not........GET ONE! Also,
you may want to
>get and run McAfee's Stinger, also free.
>
>Oh yeah, when everything is cleaned up, check one or more
of the following
>sites on how to trim your startup axis......you would be
amazed at how much
>this will help your PC.
>http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
>http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
>http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
>http://ww2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
>http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
>http://www.greatis.com/regrun3appdatabase.htm
> Heirloom, old and do it all
sometimes maybe if I
>can
>
>
>"Lost on the Naughty Laptop"
> wrote in
>message ...
>> I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows ME.
>> 1) When I start up, the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
will
>> open, but not respond ( CTRL ALT DEL to get to task
>> manager and see that it is not responding)
>> 2)I have about 20-25 different items listed in the task
>> manager as running...however I have not opened any
>> applications, I just turned the machine on. I have to
>> close half of them to "unlock" the computer.
>> 3)My programs options from the start button are missing
>> things like Accesories-defrag, etc...Where they went who
>> knows!
>> In order to perform scan disk, I had to go into safe
mode
>> and let it scan disk last night. I plan to scan disk on
>> my d drive as well tonight and defrag both as well...in
>> safe mode.
>> What else should I do? Should I do a restore? Not sure
>> what exactly this does, but I do not want to lose my
>> existing software programs I have loaded or files...
>> Any help would be appreciated...
>> Lost on the Naughty Laptop
>