Re: XP Home, My Documents automatic display after boot up

From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_Notsocal.rr.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:51:53 GMT

     Keith, try these websites. They are free and work very well. Also rt
click MyComputer>select Properties>System Restore and check the box "Turn
Off System Restore on All Drives"
           http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

                http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

                      http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

                     http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html

"Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4A942202-D34F-4AAF-9D3D-F6FE12F34E14@microsoft.com...
> Rich Barry
>
> As it stand now, in the msconfig, its uncheck for the few items I
> mentioned
> before.
> I suppose I will do another 'Housecall/micro trend' scan and for those it
> says 'it cannot be clean', do I then delete them. This infected hdd, I
> suppose I have to 'Disable the system restore' before attached as
> secondary
> hdd and scan. (earlier scan I did not 'Disable SR' Please advice as I do
> not
> know much about pc, many thanks.
>
>
>
> "Rich Barry" wrote:
>
>> Keith, with the additional info you sent the sys32snd.exe is
>> installed
>> by a Worm.
>> http://startup.iamnotageek.com/srch-sys32snd.exe.html
>>
>>
>> "Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E29DE243-D827-4F53-82CC-FE0BAB5AE06C@microsoft.com...
>> > The 'Userinit' is current having data as
>> > "C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe",
>> > so don't know whats wrong with the pc.
>> >
>> > Feel strange, normally you expect when we type 'regedit, it will give
>> > us
>> > the
>> > main 5 root directory, but just now when I typed 'regedit', it came
>> > straight
>> > to the place where I last visited. Does it seems right?
>> >
>> > May I just add, the first time I boot up after the scan, it give
>> > messages
>> > like "Window cannot find 'win ssv.exe' Make sure you typed the name
>> > corrrectly & try again........'". It has a box for you to click 'ok'.
>> > which I
>> > did.
>> > When I click 'ok', there are other messages like [[
>> > ' ... cannot find sys32snd.exe...',
>> > ' ... cannot find xpndis.exe.....',
>> > ' ... cannot find tvl.exe...',
>> > ' ... spoolsvc.exe...'. ]]
>> > However, since then when I reboot after the above few messages does not
>> > appear any more. I hope the above will be of help as how we can prevent
>> > the
>> > "My Document" from appearing automatically. Please help and many
>> > thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Keith, go to Start>Run type: regedit and Navigate to
>> >>
>> >> Using Regedit, change the following key:
>> >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT
>> >> VERSION\WINLOGON
>> >> Change USERINIT from
>> >> C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,c:\windows\system32\userinit.exe to
>> >> C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Keith" <Keith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:6F84F46C-A1EA-46B3-8849-EA1E089695F3@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Just done a spring cleaning of my XP Home with various anti virus,
>> >> > and
>> >> > those
>> >> > cannot be cleaned were deleted. However upon reboot each time, the
>> >> > My
>> >> > Documents dialogue page will automatically appear (where you can see
>> >> > the
>> >> > My
>> >> > Music folder, My Picture folder etc).
>> >> > Please advice how do I stop this from appearing by itself.
>> >> > Appreciate
>> >> > your
>> >> > assistance
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

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