Re: DirectDBNotifyWndProc

No you're not optionless yet, sorry but I've been elswhere. If you believe the issue is caused by HP's task manager, try uninstalling it or disbaling it if you can to see if it clears it up. If not check into OE, as mentioned before, everwhere I checked OE came up.

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dimie71 wrote:
Nice...
I am left without any option, without any support from Microsoft I guess.
Too bad for a product I have BOUGHT. I think support and the recent note in
microsoft's first website page about the quality of their support, is
eventually nothing but words...

I really wonder if anybody got irritated by my comments on Windows Defender
Definitions. If that is the case, then to my logic, that is pathetic. What
should a user like me do when he/she realizes that the so called "reliable"
product, including its additions, behaves unexpectedly, causes problems, and
most of all when the additives cause more problems thatn the ones already
existing? Should he/she stay silent and accept it, in order not to risk of
microsoft ignoring him/her?

I doubt anybody realizes how negative that is for Microsoft. Leaving
somebody in the dark, makes him search for alternatives...Why should you
care? You already got the money for my copy of Windows, right? So who cares...

"dimie71" wrote:

Anybody with a suggestion?
I am almost certain that the HP task manager is causing all this. Can it be
that this problem appears just because the driver is unsigned?
I wonder why noone posts back at me all the sudden...

"dimie71" wrote:

Managed to "freeze" with Process Explorer. At the moment of "impact" (lol),
2 things appear. One is hptskmgr.exe which runs under svchost.exe and its
the HP task management component. I have an HP printer connected to the PC.
The other one is userinit.exe which is Usernit Logon Application.

In my events everything is clear, apart from Windows Defender reporting that
Process Explorer is spyware or other potentially unwanted software!!!
Hahaha! It seems to me that whatever can help Windows operate smoothly is
UNWANTED software!
Hey, who updates these definitions, he deserves a medal for terrorizing
Windows users!

So, what do I do now?

"dimie71" wrote:

I also want to add that Windows Defender is running, with fully updated
definitions. I apologize forgetting about this...

"Brian A." wrote:

Ok now dimie, it appears that a very large percentage of this problem
is due to OE. First to possibly confirm or identify it:
Click Start > Run, type in: eventvwr.msc and press Enter.
Look through the App and System events to see if any errors have to do
with msimn.exe.

Also see if any of this helps:
How to manually remove and reinstall Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q263837/

How to reinstall or repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in
Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318378



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dimie71 wrote:
Will try what you suggest tomorrow. Tell me something else. Is there
anyway that what I describe has to do with my PC freezing upon
connection? So far nobody has specifically referred to the PC freezing
problem.
So does anybody believe that the 2 problems I describe can be relative?



dimie71 wrote:

@Brian A. ...I already have Ad-Aware SE, updated to the latest
definitions (SE1R121-28.08.2006), I run a scan every week and I get
nothing apart from cookies... I have already used HijackThis, there is
nothing in there that is not normal. The processes running are the
expected ones, nothing unknown or unexpected. I dont have Spybot
Search & Destroy, do you really think it makes such a huge difference?

Not huge, but it can be said that Ad-aware and SB S&D compliment each
other, since each may/can/do find things the other didn't.


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"HeyBub" wrote:

dimie71 wrote:
Hello,
Before I analyze my problem I would like to say that I have read
numerous posts over the internet about DirectDBNotifyWndProc. None of
them can even come close to what I have to deal with.
I have been experiencing a problem that its becoming more and more
annoying. My PC runs fine except this process. No, I dont have
shutdown problems or similar kinds of behaviour. What I have is this
DirectDBNotifyWndProc appearing all the sudden, out of nowhere. This
thing appears for like 1 second, ALWAYS at the taskbar and straight
after it disappears! It runs numerous times, in a random sequence. I
get no other notification, I dont even find anything relative at my
logged events. I dont know what kicks this process, believe me I have
tried a lot. Now, since the PC is located in an office and there are
various of
programs running (like a business administration program), it becomes
annoying through the following way. Whenever it runs at the taskbar,
my PC returns to desktop and I have to get back to the program I was
using through the taskbar. Yeah, in a way it minimizes my running
applications when it runs.
What can it be? How am I going to find out what causes it to run
and then disappear? Can that be realtive to some possible malfunction
or some virus-spyware?
Can that also be relative to another problem I face which has to do
with the same computer when dialing and connecting to the internet?
As soon as I connect, everything freezes for an unknown amount of
time. Usually in like 5-10 minutes, nothing works. I see apps running
in the taskbar but they dont disappear even when I manage to close
them. Yes, in some, like Outlook Express, I can close the app, but
Internet Explorer, I can only minimize. Outlook still shows in the
taskbar like whatever was running PRIOR to connecting, EVEN if I
managed to close them. Other things I noticed are the following.
1. Taskbar, Quick Launch, the icons to the right of the taskbar, all
frozen.
2. Desktop (I get there ONLY with Alt+Tab) has clickable shortcuts
but even though you click on them, nothing makes to to run.
3. Alt+Ctrl+Del doesnt respond, even though you see the 3D mouse
"working"
4. Upon connection the PopUp window that says "Connected to xxx
provider" freezes and stays semi-transparent until computer manages
to get out of this stage.
5. My Computer shortcut is the only one that responds.

When the computer exits this freeze, every shortcut I have clicked
on, all the Ctrl+Alt+Del attempts, generally everything I have been
doing while it was frozen, starts appearing all together, very fast,
then the computer is fine and I can continue working on it without
any further problems! If I disconnect and try to reconnect, I usually
have less chances of being frozen again, because most of the times it
connects without freezing, although there were times it froze again.

I wonder if anyone can help in the entire matter as a whole or
separately in the 2 serious problems I face.

Thanks!

P.S. Greetings to you PABear, hope you remember me! :)

Remove "SpySweeper" from your system.

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