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Multi-Screwup Computer please help!!!! 3

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vengeanceforsuji

Technical User
Dec 11, 2003
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US
OK I posted this on blizzhackers and nobody seemed to help so now I am posting here. Thanks.

Hey guys I just did a system recovery (installs all files that came with the comp, next best thing than reformat), and I had to reinstall most if not all of my progz cuz they won't work. It was all good until I started getting some screwups:

1. Error Message occasionally occurs (i'll post what it says when it comes up again)

2. Whenever I startup, there's not much activity but when the comp starts loading the AV (I use AVG) and ZoneAlarm, it takes about 2 min. I disabled ZA from startup and it doesn't help.

3. Haywire floppy drive activity. When I run any prog there's some lag and then the floppy drive has some activity going on (i.e flash lights and that noise). I think its becuz of msiexec.exe but its a system process and whenever I terminate the process it comes back again.

4. Random Lag. Whenever I open prog there's some random lagging going on occasionally.

5. Macromedia problems. Whenever I do "Test Movie" or preview a web page in Dreamweaver, it takes 3 minutes loading (even though the comp's doing nothing) and then sometimes it doesn't load and sometimes it does. :x When I make a Flash Movie and i want to preview it, that happens all the time!

6. Default config applied at the most random points. Sometimes I boot my comp and my old firewall (Zero Knowledge, came with the comp) is install again when I SPECIFICALLY UNINSTALLED IT!!!

7. Desktop, Taskbar, and Systray reloads again. Every time I use the comp this happens at least once. The desktop icons disappear along with the taskbar at the bottom, and then reloads again with about half as many icons in the Systray (The Systray has Palm Hotsync, Nvidia Control Panel, Sound, AVGCC, and Camio Viewer)

THIS PISSES ME OFF I CAN'T USE MY COMP EVEN ONCE WITHOUT FEARING WHAT WOULD INEVITABLY HAPPEN! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By system recovery, do you mean using the OEM CDs that came with the system to reapply the factory image? Does your system recovery actually reformat the HDD?

If you're answering no to theses questions, then you will have to reformat. It sounds like a big time OS corruption in the registry.

Steven S.
MCSA
A+, Network+, Server+, i-Net+
 
disable "system recovery" (im german and dont know if its the right term.

get spybot/cwshredder or similar tool (malware checker/remover)

do a full viruscheck (if pos. from cd/dos)

i really think best is do what @aznluvsmc wrote, i even would recommend get a low level format tool first (hdd manufactor).
 
Is this ZoneAlarm the new version (recently released) that now has inbuilt virus scanning? I have seen many reports of trouble with this version, the solution being to go back to the older (no virus scanner) version of ZoneAlarm.

Disabling a firewall such as ZoneAlarm is not the same as uninstalling it. Even after uninstalling you may have to go fishing in the Registry for remnants.

It may be worth your while to check out the ZoneAlarm forum.

 
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