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Topic # 17567 1-Dec-2007 22:32
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Hi,

This strange behaviour has started occurring out of the blue... when I login to any account I get the following dialog box. Until I click either Yes or No, nothing happens. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

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Reply # 97866 2-Dec-2007 06:29
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I recommend you invest somet time and scan your system. You can start with the Geekzone on-line virus scanner, then get an antispyware tool as well.




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  Reply # 97892 2-Dec-2007 14:12
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Yes.. well... both virus and spyware scans turned up nothing.. 

Its a reasonably new VMWare partition, with very little installed... no data of value either so am just going to ditch it.

Weird though.

 
 
 
 


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Reply # 97917 2-Dec-2007 18:49
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Perhaps you could run MSCONFIG before deleting the virtual machine, to find out what's on the startup?




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  Reply # 97933 2-Dec-2007 20:35
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That would have been a good idea... :) too late now, but will try if it happens again.

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  Reply # 99222 10-Dec-2007 11:59
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I realise I'm a bit late, but for the future AutoRuns is also great for debugging startup problems.

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