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Deleting Suspicious Programmes from Auto run
Wooluf - many thanks for the advice - I downloaded the Startup Manager programme from the link you kindly provided. I highly commend it to anyone wanting to monitor/disable/ enable programmes which are launched automatically by windows during startup. Unfortunately whilst I was then quickly...- dlorimer
- Post #5
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Deleting Suspicious Programmes from Auto run
Having recently experienced a problem with a virus that was taking over my bandwidth and removing my desktop (solved thanks to good advice from members of this forum) I have now noticed that there is a suspicious icon (looks like a cartoon head in black and white) on the right of the task bar in...- dlorimer
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- Replies: 4
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Help---**** No Desktop when loggin into W2K
I am indebted to the contributions above which enabled me to recover my missing desktop. I was also unable to delete the offending explorer.exe using task manager and resorted to selecting Windows during startup which leads to the dos prompt. The commands 'cd winnt' then 'cd system32' then...- dlorimer
- Post #27
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
