Don,

I often use HiJackThis to get a picture of what is loaded into my computer when it's running. It's freeware and you can get it from...

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

(I suggest using the executable version of 2.0.2)

Be careful when you use this program. If you put a check mark next to something to "fix" it, HiJackThis's fix is not recoverable if you make an error. You need to be absolutely certain beforehand that you have found the problem. If in doubt, save a log of the results of running HiJackThis and email it to me (nadams96[@]gmail.com - just remove the brackets around @). I'm happy to have a look at it.

IMPORTANT
  • First: save a copy of your registry files before making any corrections. To do this, I use a little freeware program called ERUNT - Emergency Recovery Utility NT - which works well with XP or Vista (run as administrator).
  • Second: search each of the suspect files using Google and see what turns up. It's usually very easy to isolate the problem file(s).

If the problem file can't be removed because it's reported as "being in use", I would then boot up the computer using a liveCD of Ubuntu and see if I can delete the offending file (this usually works because Windows is not loaded when booting into Ubuntu).

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Noel

Last edited by Noel96; 12/17/09 06:14 AM.
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