re: Removing programs
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 4:40 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
Hi Vickie.
Vickie O wrote:
|Am using Windows 98 - whenever booting up and several times during day, receive
|a pop-up "Install Now, XP Anti virus ver 2.4". I need to get rid of this annoyance!
| It was never "purchased", have no idea how it came about and for a few months it
|was gone. Back again, and at times will lock up my computer.
Well it looks like this message is coming from the apps that start when Windows starts
up. Now there are various ways to remove this message you can try Run: Msconfig
and look in the Startup tab. That will list all the programs that run as soon as
Windows starts up you just remove the tick mark. Restart and see if its still there.
If it is then run Msconfig again and put the original tick back and remove another
one, do this with one tick mark at a time so you know which one is causing the message
to be shown.
Now there are certain items that need to be run when Windows startup these are whats
running on my system
Windows Explorer, System Tray, ScanRegistry, Task Monitor, Load Power Profile, mdac_runonce,
LoadQM, StillImageMonitor, NvMediaCenter
NvMediaCenter is my graphics card so your name will be slightly different. If you
have a virus checker running all the time then this will be listed as well. I think
LoadQM is for MSN Messenger which I don't use that much.
Who's anti-virus are you using?
Or you download CCleaner which an handy little
app thats free and that will show all the programs that run on startup. But if you
remove these then they aren't easy to put back. When you use CCleaner on Win2k/XP/Vista
there is a tick mark again for what you what running on startup so you can remove
it and put it back.
Start off with Msconfig and see if it still shows.
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