Hi Crunchie

Sorry to say that the regedit did not change the problems with control panel.

I have decided to just have my son backup everything that he wants to keep such as data, music, etc.
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Wow, that was quick!

I'm at work now, so I will give it a try when I get home. I will post the results tonight.

If I might ask, what do you think the cause of something like this could be? I...

I appreciate your help Billy!

I forgot to mention that I had already gotten rid of all spyware and I have registery mechanic, so that got rid of pretty much everything, the only thing is that...

Here is a new Log File and I have attached a new startup list

Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2
Scan saved at 6:36:53 AM, on 9/7/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet...

I was last here in June you fixed me right up.

I got a computer for my 16 year old son, and i know he has been doing things that he shouldn't be doing ;) I think I have something in the log or...

Thank you Caperjack!

Problem has been resolved with the above fix! I did some checking on this, and it seems that it will continuely occur everytime I access SB, checked with Sound Blaster, I see...

I was going to go and get Opera, and then I happened to see this thread today, and so I looked into both Browser options and I will say this.

I am very much impressed with Mozilla Firefox.

It...

Here is the Startuplist:

StartupList report, 6/7/2004, 7:08:07 PM
StartupList version: 1.52
Started from : C:\Documents and Settings\My Name\My Documents\Downloads\Hijack...

will do, thanks for your help, i will post the hjl as well when i get home. hopefully i will just be able to see what the problem is and delete it. i'm sure it's just something stupid.

have a...

Crunchie

You going to be around this evening? I'm at work so I can't do this right now.

I'm usually home around 6pm cst.

I appreciate your continued help.

I also wanted to give you a...

It doesn't say anything.....the directory just opens up and remains open on my screen?

Something has to be calling it up don't you think, why would the directory open up like that when i'm...

Thank you so much!

I did everything that you said thought it was going to work, but i'm still getting the system 32 directory opening up when i restart? i'm sure it's something that i've done...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 3:17:53 PM, on 6/6/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:...

No one seems to be helping me out :sad:

In the mean time, I have downloaded and ran the following programs:

Spybot Search and Destroy found stuff and fixed most of it still has 13 problems...

First and for most....Thank you for having this site!

I Googled and that's how I found you guys! Got to love it.

I have read most of the post on the System 32 coming up on startup.

I have...