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Ben
OK I'm having a lot of trouble with Windows XP Home
Edition right now.
The first problem is, whenever I try to open Task
Manager, via ctrl, alt, delete, or by oppening manually
from the taskbar or even trying to load it from Help and
Support, the taskmanager flashes for a few seconds then
dissapears.
The second problem is, when I try to open up MSCONFIG,
the same thing happens, it flickers for a few seconds,
then dissapears.
The third problem is a little irrelivent to the first
two, but when I try to type in a search, the search will
freeze up and then exit out and the screen will go
completely blue, and then everything will be loaded up,
but any programs that were running, minimised,
maxiumised, or one of the icons by the clocks, will be
exited out of.
I have checked Windows Update to see if there are any
updates at all, and there are none.
I've checked the volume for errors and it just ends up
saying at the end of the log "Windows has found no
problems in the file system" or sometimes it will
say "Windows has finished verifying folders" and not
anything else.
I've tried to find out if maybe spyware was a problem and
I downloaded 3 spyware programs: Spy Sweeper, Pest
Patrol, and Ad aware, but that didn't help at all.
My next thought was maybe I have a virus, so I downloaded
Norton Anti Virus, and used the anti-virus program from
Zone Labs software (Zone Alarm with virus protection/
Zone Alarm Security Suite) and that didn't change
anything either.
My next thought was that maybe some computer was somehow
hacking me with a tracking cookie or something (it sounds
silly I know, but I was desperate) so I downloaded
Windows Washer and Anonymiser but that didn't do anything.
I tried to find help at the thing where you can get help
over the computer with a Microsoft specialist but for
some reason, the systems that they listed that come with
Microsoft installed did not list "Systemax". So I thought
maybe it was the company thing under it. So I looked
for "Venture" but they didn't have anything under that
either. Next I saw "Intel pentium" at the bottom of my
machine, so I looked for Intel, but that wasn't on their
either.
So I tried to put in the registration number for the
Windows XP product that it showed under System
Information, but Microsoft said it was a product that
came with the computer.
I happen to know that this is not a configuation issue
because I've had this computer since late 2002 and
nothing like this has ever happened before.
I have 4 accounts on this computer and they are all set
under administrater. Even though it seemed pointless, I
tried to open task manager and MSCONFIG on all the
usernames but the exact same thing happened on all of
them.
I know that this computer is legal because it was bought
straight from Amazon.com (Not from a different or someone
with a used computer, because under the seller icon when
you choose where to buy from, items that are from
Amazon.com and were paid and sold for them new, have the
Amazon.com logo, and that's what the seller had.
I have absolutely no idea what to do and especially since
Microsoft doesn't name Systemax as a company that comes
with XP, even though it says it on the computer and even
on the mouse pad and contains the link:
www.systemaxpc/com, I'm even more confused about what I
should do.
If anyone has any suggestions of what in the world I
should do, please respond to this message. I need all the
help I can get.
Edition right now.
The first problem is, whenever I try to open Task
Manager, via ctrl, alt, delete, or by oppening manually
from the taskbar or even trying to load it from Help and
Support, the taskmanager flashes for a few seconds then
dissapears.
The second problem is, when I try to open up MSCONFIG,
the same thing happens, it flickers for a few seconds,
then dissapears.
The third problem is a little irrelivent to the first
two, but when I try to type in a search, the search will
freeze up and then exit out and the screen will go
completely blue, and then everything will be loaded up,
but any programs that were running, minimised,
maxiumised, or one of the icons by the clocks, will be
exited out of.
I have checked Windows Update to see if there are any
updates at all, and there are none.
I've checked the volume for errors and it just ends up
saying at the end of the log "Windows has found no
problems in the file system" or sometimes it will
say "Windows has finished verifying folders" and not
anything else.
I've tried to find out if maybe spyware was a problem and
I downloaded 3 spyware programs: Spy Sweeper, Pest
Patrol, and Ad aware, but that didn't help at all.
My next thought was maybe I have a virus, so I downloaded
Norton Anti Virus, and used the anti-virus program from
Zone Labs software (Zone Alarm with virus protection/
Zone Alarm Security Suite) and that didn't change
anything either.
My next thought was that maybe some computer was somehow
hacking me with a tracking cookie or something (it sounds
silly I know, but I was desperate) so I downloaded
Windows Washer and Anonymiser but that didn't do anything.
I tried to find help at the thing where you can get help
over the computer with a Microsoft specialist but for
some reason, the systems that they listed that come with
Microsoft installed did not list "Systemax". So I thought
maybe it was the company thing under it. So I looked
for "Venture" but they didn't have anything under that
either. Next I saw "Intel pentium" at the bottom of my
machine, so I looked for Intel, but that wasn't on their
either.
So I tried to put in the registration number for the
Windows XP product that it showed under System
Information, but Microsoft said it was a product that
came with the computer.
I happen to know that this is not a configuation issue
because I've had this computer since late 2002 and
nothing like this has ever happened before.
I have 4 accounts on this computer and they are all set
under administrater. Even though it seemed pointless, I
tried to open task manager and MSCONFIG on all the
usernames but the exact same thing happened on all of
them.
I know that this computer is legal because it was bought
straight from Amazon.com (Not from a different or someone
with a used computer, because under the seller icon when
you choose where to buy from, items that are from
Amazon.com and were paid and sold for them new, have the
Amazon.com logo, and that's what the seller had.
I have absolutely no idea what to do and especially since
Microsoft doesn't name Systemax as a company that comes
with XP, even though it says it on the computer and even
on the mouse pad and contains the link:
www.systemaxpc/com, I'm even more confused about what I
should do.
If anyone has any suggestions of what in the world I
should do, please respond to this message. I need all the
help I can get.