Strange behaviour

[Peter Wetschnigg]

Hello,

since a few days ago my Windows XP shows the following strange behaviour:
In random intervals of time the links on the desktop loose their icon (they
appear in the windows-icon), while the HDD rattles for about 10 secs -
blocking any user interaction - and then the links get their icon again,
the whole spook is over. (To me it seems as if Windows checks in the
background, if the links are still acitve or not.) - How can that be
stopped?

Thank you! Best regards

Peter Wetschnigg

WinXP Prof, SP 1

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Peter

You should update your virus definitions and run full anti-virus scan. If
you do not have anti-virus programme installed you can run a free scan from
the internet. Try this link:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Spyware causes many problems. If not installed download Adaware and update
Reference file from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
and use it to remove parasites.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Rock]

Hello,

since a few days ago my Windows XP shows the following strange behaviour:
In random intervals of time the links on the desktop loose their icon (they
appear in the windows-icon), while the HDD rattles for about 10 secs -
blocking any user interaction - and then the links get their icon again,
the whole spook is over. (To me it seems as if Windows checks in the
background, if the links are still acitve or not.) - How can that be
stopped?

Thank you! Best regards

Peter Wetschnigg

WinXP Prof, SP 1

Check in the event viewer --- Start | Control Panel | Performance and
Maintenance | Administrative tools | Event Viewer. Look in both the
system and applications logs. Are they any errors listed at the time
this happens? If so post back the information.