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qroniq

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#17567 1-Dec-2007 22:32

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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#97866 2-Dec-2007 06:29

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.

qroniq

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#97892 2-Dec-2007 14:12

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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#97917 2-Dec-2007 18:49

Perhaps you could run MSCONFIG before deleting the virtual machine, to find out what's on the startup?

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#97933 2-Dec-2007 20:35

That would have been a good idea... :) too late now, but will try if it happens again.

Thanks.

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#99222 10-Dec-2007 11:59

I realise I'm a bit late, but for the future AutoRuns is also great for debugging startup problems.

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