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Old 01-18-2010, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Bliss Township, Michigan
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AADAD, I'm an IT tech, if you would like I can take a look at your PC for ya. Is it a laptop or tower?
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Bliss Township, Michigan
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Also, grab ad-aware from lavasoft.com
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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AADAD, I'm an IT tech, if you would like I can take a look at your PC for ya. Is it a laptop or tower?
Dell Studio 1537 with vista
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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I will try these antivirus programs to see if they work unless you have better idea?? thanks.
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:48 PM
 
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Laptop then. Makes it easier to tote around.
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:49 PM
 
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Do you know anything about opening and checking through Task Manager?
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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this thing will not allow me to open task manager
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Bliss Township, Michigan
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Ahh, yep, you got a good one.
About 2 years ago the place I was working at had, what this sounds like away, just what you have. It's a tricky one, but doable/cleanable.

Were you able to boot into save mode?
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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task manager tries to open then shuts down..........at least I cant see it
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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will try to reboot snow hit f8 and hold before windows appears then do what?
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