Re: Windows components close immediately atfter opening

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:08:32 -0700

Update your antivirus software and run a full system scan.

[[When you open System Configuration Utility [MSCONFIG], Registry Editor or
Task Manager, they flash for a second and quit. This symptom is caused by
Viruses.]]

Task Manager, MSCONFIG, or REGEDIT disappear while opening
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/ToolsQuit.htm

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Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:5ABB4692-2F63-49C3-A716-02DC9A1698A6@microsoft.com,
Bill <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> I am running XP Home with SP2.  Recently I have experienced a problem
> that when I try to start defragmenter, task manager or device manager
> (and there could be other) the application screen flashes and then
> closes immediately. I have been running SP2 since November and this
> problem has come up only in the last 2-3 weeks.
> 
> I have run both spyware and virus scan and the problems did not seem
> to be there.
> Thinking that some XP files are corrupt I did an upgrade install of
> XP Home with SP2 again and I still have the same problem.  My next
> step would be to do a clean load of XP but want to see if  there is
> something else I should attempt first.

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