[kemet64]

Alright, whenever I start up windows, it seems that random programs "has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience".
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Some that happened this time include: IdLMW.exe, Disc Detector, weatherbug, quicktime, autoupdate.exe, wupdtmgr.exe, taskswitch.exe.

And sometimes it is different, for example, weatherbug comes up perfectly fine. I also stated a CDRW problem in the technology forum http://www.driverheaven.net/showthr...&threadid=48838

Basically, whenever I try to burn something, It usually crashes or at least does not work.

Is this mabye a virus? Virus scan is not turning up anything.

[MythicaL]

Scan for spyware first of all, seeing that Weatherbug is an annoying ass spyware program.

[kemet64]

yea I have done that....It found a bunch of spyware, couple trojens, I removed it all....but same thing still happens. This time the quicktime and autoupdate, and taskswitch were the ones to come up. It is random but random between the same basic programs.

[MythicaL]

Just reformat the hard drive...

[edperks]

If your using XP put your XP cd in the drive and type "sfc /scannow" (Sytem File Checker) this will verify all windows files.

[Nacht]

first, i would disable all of the unnecessary stuff (disc detector, weather bug)...update your spyware and virus scanners, run both (i use norton, adaware, spybot), then if push comes to shove...format

[grog]

You installed Weatherbug then you have Gator.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ <= ad-aware - removes spyware
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd <= spybot's search and distroy - removes spyware

If you want to know the weather and you don't want spyware get the weather tools from "The Weather Channel".

http://www.weather.com/services/?from=globalnav

It's free and they only use it to promote their station.

Greg

[dj_stick]

also random programs crashing… this happened to me, run memtest to see if your ram is workign correctly

[Sturmbahn]

A Win98 computer I was working on had this problem after using AdAware and Spybot with SpywareBlaster. The problem seemed to come from some spyware that couldn't be fully removed. It's as if the program automatically loaded itself at startup, but couldn't find its deleted files and caused the error (always just during startup). The only real fix was to reinstall 98 (Too slow for XP).

[kemet64]

Well....the fact of the matter is I will be getting a new computer in about 1-2 months.....the startup crashes are not a huge problem that I can find so I am just going to wait.