Windows ME desktop

[Anna Nichols]

I cannot get anything on my desktop to work. I have all my
icons on there, but when I click on one, nothing happens.
It doesn't hilight the name, and it doesn't give me an
error message. It just does nothing.
I have to go to start and then click on a program to get
anything to open up.
Also, windows is really slow. I have a virus scanner, but
it says there is no virus.

[Noel Paton]

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.

See if that helps - then look here for instructions on how to clean up your
startup axis, preventing unnecessary programs loading
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php



--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp

"Anna Nichols" > wrote in message
...
> I cannot get anything on my desktop to work. I have all my
> icons on there, but when I click on one, nothing happens.
> It doesn't hilight the name, and it doesn't give me an
> error message. It just does nothing.
> I have to go to start and then click on a program to get
> anything to open up.
> Also, windows is really slow. I have a virus scanner, but
> it says there is no virus.