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re: Weird prob-Active processes?
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 10:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cat
(2 messages posted)
I've run the utilities, and I don't think the problem is spyware/adware/trojans.
Everything comes up clean, but the problem still occurs.
Any other suggestions? It's driving my MIL (therefore me :) ) absolutely nuts.
Thanks
On Friday, March 4, 2005 at 7:12 am, Cat wrote:
>I'm stumped, so I've come here for some help please! I'm working on my MIL's new
>Dell PC. She's had it a few weeks, we've loaded some software [mostly games :),
Norton
>AntiVirus, Earthlink].
>
>Here's what's happening: My active window becomes inactive. This typically happens
>while connected to the internet. It's the strangest thing - nothing else appears
>to be happening; no pop-ups, no error messages, no other application opens (that
>I know of). I might be writing an email, and I've got to move the mouse and click
>on the email window to make it active again.
>
>I've checked Task Manager and there are typically 40+ processes running. I don't
>know what they all are, but recognize some (like mm_tray, iexplore, msmsgs, etc.).
>I ran SpyBot and found a few annoyances, deleted all. Problem still occurs. Norton
>is fully updated and running.
>
>Any suggestions? I'm not an expert, but my MIL considers me her tech support.
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