B
Bob
Just posting a problem that I indentified and solved in the event
someone else sees it.
When applying windows XPSP2 I had several things whack out at the same
time. Computer slowed down and gave not responding messages, sometime
it would not finish booting or all the windows would error out.
Thought it was XPSP2 but figured microsoft had checked it out well
before releasing. SO had to be spyware. Turned out it was spyware.
Snycroad.exe and winsync.exe are bastards to get rid of, finally found
Gaint antispyware software program online with the two diffulties
identified and the software capable of removal of the two. Had to
download it under safe mode then launch it after a reboot. Problem
solved.
No MS-DOS programs would run (old 16 bit) after this incident. Seems
something took the autoexec.nt file out of the C:\windows\systems32\
directory. Used a copy of the file in C:\i386\ directory to fill in
the missing file and everything started working again.
Further I removed SP2 and reinstalled it to see if it removed the
autoexec.nt file. It did not remove it on the reinstall. I am
assuming the one of the spyware programs removed the file at this
point and XPSP2 was blameless in the whole problem.
Good luck.
someone else sees it.
When applying windows XPSP2 I had several things whack out at the same
time. Computer slowed down and gave not responding messages, sometime
it would not finish booting or all the windows would error out.
Thought it was XPSP2 but figured microsoft had checked it out well
before releasing. SO had to be spyware. Turned out it was spyware.
Snycroad.exe and winsync.exe are bastards to get rid of, finally found
Gaint antispyware software program online with the two diffulties
identified and the software capable of removal of the two. Had to
download it under safe mode then launch it after a reboot. Problem
solved.
No MS-DOS programs would run (old 16 bit) after this incident. Seems
something took the autoexec.nt file out of the C:\windows\systems32\
directory. Used a copy of the file in C:\i386\ directory to fill in
the missing file and everything started working again.
Further I removed SP2 and reinstalled it to see if it removed the
autoexec.nt file. It did not remove it on the reinstall. I am
assuming the one of the spyware programs removed the file at this
point and XPSP2 was blameless in the whole problem.
Good luck.