Strange computer behavior

[The Dark Messenger]

After getting my new nForce7 to correct my previous problem, something less significant has popped up. Still worries me though :(

Whenever I use a full-screen app, I sometimes here the sounds Windows makes when you click or when a minor error window comes up. Recently, MSN just signed off and closed itself without input or warning. 5 mins ago in fact.

Any ideas? ???

[Morpheus]

Formatting HD and reinstalling Windows is the best way to get rid of strange windows behaviours. Usually it is spyware doing crazy things or windows getting corrupted.

[The Dark Messenger]

Not Spyware. I run Adaware regularly. And I'm not gonna reformat over something like this :p

[Bentusi]

get and run spybot search and destroy too salv.

I run both, they frequently pick up stuff the other misses

[Karmashock]

What software loads with your OS asside from windows?
List all of it that you know of.
Then actually check.
Load up the Task manager <Ctrl+shift+Esc>
Look for strange programs.
Look in "msconfig" startup tab and look for non windows items running.
If you have XP professional, then I suggest you look at your services panel in the admin tools... Look for something nonwindows that's running.

If you like, I can send you some very powerful tools that will analyise your system looking for rogue processes... interfering services... that sort of thing... but most of it you have to buy... I can tell you the names of these things so you can go out and buy them... but half of them are expensive server level programs that will set you back 2000 dollars.... best to ask TLSC leadership if I can give them to you... I'm not going over their heads on their board.

At the end of the day, it's likely not soemthing being intentionally bad... You're likely just running too much shit at once and it's causing conflicts.

I deal with that on my system by keeping everything extremely clean. The system does what I tell it when I tell it and not a fuck lot else... best way to do things.

[00025]

You could always system restore to a point where there wasn't any problems. Works for me most of the time.

[Tigre]

Sounds like you have an errant .exe entry that is trying to reload again every time you open up to full screen. Do you have a good registry repair program? I use Registry First Aid. I think it is free for a trial. Look it up an google. Run it and it will delete all the registry entries that are invalid. Maybe, this will help?

[Karmashock]

I'm testing this program out right now... It's saying I have nearly 3000 inncorrect entries... which is likely... but I'm going to the "suggested" changes... and some of them are stupid...

For instance, a lot of games that I just didn't bother to go through the right unistall proceedure, it's recommending connecting those entries to other files on other drives with the same name... but they're all coincidences... I doubt that anything 'bad' will happen when it connects stuff that will never be launched to things that do something the entries weren't designed for... but it makes me uneasy...

It also took damn near an hour and a half to finish on my system... which is sometimes a really good sign because it means its doing something the right way... but in this case... I think's a little too zealous with the concept of "same name" equals "same function"...

Norton had one of these called "win doctor" or something... it did a better job on home systems... but this was back in the 98 days... I don't think they had a XP version that I would trust...

[The Dark Messenger]

I also have SB:S&D, but Adaware tends to pick up more. Will check it, though.

As for the processes running, there's 41. That's more than what I expected, but I know what most of them do. Some, like CLI.exe (two entries) and ctfmon.exe I do NOT recognise, but I'm hesitant to end any of them.
what do you mean by programs that load with Windows? Start-up programs?
There's, amongst others that should definitely be there, nwiz, nvcpl, ACMoniter_X83, AcBtnMgr_X83, RunDll32 cmicnfg, jusched, Ashdisp, and (blank space).

I'm not sure exactly when the problem started, in any case it's too far back to restore. Restoring tends to do funny things to UT2004 too.