Homepage setting keeps changing to: mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm::/start.html

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Hello there everyone

I believe I've got something in my system that keeps changing my homepage to: mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm::/start.htm

It's ratter anoying. The day that I realized this happening a few other things also happened

1. My Notpad in the startup menu was "gone". I mean the icon still there, but when I click on it it's not starting Notpad, it seems to be running some sort of thing but nothing came up on screen. I then went into the property of that shortcut, and found that the .exe file for this Notpad icon has be changed to C:\WINDOWS\system32\actmovie.ex

I did find the notpad.exe it was in c:\windows . I am wondering is this the defualt location for it? Wasn't it supposed to be in c:\windows\system32 folder? I noticed the calculator was located in the system32 folder

2. I play some shockwave games from Gameblast. All the downloaded games worked fine before, but now some of them will not start. It gives me an error saying that some other programe is running when I have not other programes running

I did email Shockwave and Gameblast about this, but they say the error message does not come from their programes

I have a feeling that all these are some how related. I couldn't put my fingers on what it is. Antivirus scan turns up nothing. If anyone can offer some help that would be great. Otherwise I'll resort to reformat and reload my system. Thank

Margret Li
 
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| Hello there everyone,
|
| I believe I've got something in my system that keeps changing my homepage to:
mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm::/start.html
|
| It's ratter anoying. The day that I realized this happening a few other things also happened:
|
| 1. My Notpad in the startup menu was "gone". I mean the icon still there, but when I click on it it's not
starting Notpad, it seems to be running some sort of thing but nothing came up on screen. I then went into the
property of that shortcut, and found that the .exe file for this Notpad icon has be changed to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\actmovie.exe
|
| I did find the notpad.exe it was in c:\windows . I am wondering is this the defualt location for it? Wasn't
it supposed to be in c:\windows\system32 folder? I noticed the calculator was located in the system32 folder.
|
| 2. I play some shockwave games from Gameblast. All the downloaded games worked fine before, but now some of
them will not start. It gives me an error saying that some other programe is running when I have not other
programes running.
|
| I did email Shockwave and Gameblast about this, but they say the error message does not come from their
programes.
|
| I have a feeling that all these are some how related. I couldn't put my fingers on what it is. Antivirus
scan turns up nothing. If anyone can offer some help that would be great. Otherwise I'll resort to reformat
and reload my system. Thanks
|
| Margret Li
 
Hi Margret,

Hello there everyone,

I believe I've got something in my system that keeps changing my homepage to: mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm::/start.html
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