media player starts when I log in

[John Moynihan]

I recently got a trojan horse virus on my WindowsXP home
edition desk top. Using anti-virus software, I was able
to find and fix the virus problem. However, now whenever
any user logs in, the media player starts. Two instances
of the media player start, but in just seconds they are
both 'not responding'. Using the task manager to stop the
process, just makes things worse. Some times it can take
up to 15 minutes to clear this up. Once I get the media
players to close, I get an error message saying that
something called 'getmui' cannot be found in a .dll.
After I clear the error messages, everything works fine
until I log in another user. Then the whole process
starts over again. Media player is not in my start up
folder. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[Guest]

start\run and type in msconfig and click ok. Now click the startup tab and uncheck the box beside media player. While you are at it uncheck any programs in here that you do not want starting every time you boot. This is one area of the OS that will add extensive amounts of times to the boot process as every program in here needs to be loaded before you can use your desktop. Good luck and welcome to the eXPeriance. :~)

 

[jjjdavidson]

Look in registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Run and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio
n\Run for other programs that run at startup. But be
cautious! Just because you don't know what a program is,
don't assume you don't need it. If you believe something
in the Run list is undesirable, don't delete it;
add ".zzz" to the end of the file name instead. That way,
if your system snorches up, you can restore the key easily.

Registry Rule #1: If you don't understand it, don't fool
with it.

 

[John Moynihan]

thanks. I'll give this a try.

John

-----Original Message-----
Look in registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio n
\Run and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi o
n\Run for other programs that run at startup. But be
cautious! Just because you don't know what a program is,
don't assume you don't need it. If you believe something
in the Run list is undesirable, don't delete it;
add ".zzz" to the end of the file name instead. That way,
if your system snorches up, you can restore the key easily.

Registry Rule #1: If you don't understand it, don't fool
with it.

.

 

[John Moynihan]

thanks.

-----Original Message-----
start\run and type in msconfig and click ok. Now click

the startup tab and uncheck the box beside media player.
While you are at it uncheck any programs in here that you
do not want starting every time you boot. This is one area
of the OS that will add extensive amounts of times to the
boot process as every program in here needs to be loaded
before you can use your desktop. Good luck and welcome to
the eXPeriance. :~)