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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 19:44 Edited at: 1st Apr 2011 20:06
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So about once a week but three times today, ill just be on the Internet, playing a game, etc then all of the sudden Notepad starts up! Why is this? I have done full virus scans with nothing found...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 19:50 Edited at: 1st Apr 2011 22:38
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*misread, doh*
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 19:53
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What!??

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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 19:57 Edited at: 1st Apr 2011 19:58
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Please define... "doing whatever". Making a sandwich? Sleeping? Typing something?

... and the band played on.
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 20:06
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On the Internet, playing a computer game, programming something...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 20:30 Edited at: 1st Apr 2011 20:31
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Have you setup shortcut keys for notepad or installed any shortcut key programs? Right click on the notepad shortcut under Accessories and then select Properties. Is a keystroke shortcut for it?

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... and the band played on.
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 22:31
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No shortcut keys...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 22:58
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Your computer wants you to write down how you feel

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 1st Apr 2011 23:09 Edited at: 1st Apr 2011 23:09
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Yeh next time it does that ill type in self destruct, hit save, and it will blow up!

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umm had this issue once before, didnt pay attention to it, and kinda forgot about it as the reason why I forgot about it was because I do often regular formats ^^, however I have now the beauty of IMAGING ^^ back to day 1 ^^ in a matter of hours, rather than days...

are you using a laptop or?

OH just realised it was you DBD79, I find it hard to read posters as its on the left... FAAAR left, and im born co**eyed lol (no do not picture a pe**s between my eyes lol) but umm system spec/info+OS

Hows you all?

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 00:39
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Lol Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 00:43
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I just realised this, has someone put a batch file in you startup folder? or a registry link to one at startup? I think you can do silly things like that with batch files.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 01:03 Edited at: 9th Apr 2011 01:03
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Quote: "I just realised this, has someone put a batch file in you startup folder? or a registry link to one at startup? I think you can do silly things like that with batch files."


Speaking of which... check scheduled tasks in Control Panel Administrative tools, these schedules dont depend on time alone, they can be event specific >.<

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Edited tiredness related typo lol

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 05:31 Edited at: 9th Apr 2011 05:33
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Good point, would have never thought about that. One time in DBPro i made a 'virus' that started notepad around two times per second; took my computer around an hour to shut down

But i dont think that's relevant...

I cant find administrative tools

Lol right after i hit post message i thout to search for it with the start menu, and BAM it was there

And i looked all over there, no Notepad stuff...

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 05:34 Edited at: 9th Apr 2011 05:38
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urm which OS are you on atm? if vista / 7 press start and type Administrative tools and hit enter

again cheers

I might make a post about page file shortly... I just set mine to mad setup and got mad increase in responsiveness!!!

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I truly keep tiring myself out these days... ignore my question on OS above lol

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if you want to see my classic presentation on High performance computing, hope you got Silverlight installed click here

http://www.tranquil-media.co.uk/presentation

its an old vid so sorry for the ... noise lol dont have some of that hardware anymore...
oh please do let me know what you thought of it its about half an hour long ^^

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 05:54
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I will look at that in just a second! Thanks! Haha where you are in the UK it is late, no wonder you tire yourself out!

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 05:56 Edited at: 9th Apr 2011 06:01
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coming up to 4am now

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Manchester (no I resent football)

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 06:01
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That made me lol! Just 9pm here now!

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my presentation video? haha yeah its a great giggle decided to share it finally hate YT so using silverlight off of my server >.<

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 06:05
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Sweet!

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 11:18
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Is Notepad still starting up for you? Try renaming notepad to something else.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 19:32 Edited at: 9th Apr 2011 19:39
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Just like once every week. I will rename the exe

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Ok it says i need a trusted installer signature to rename it, and lot's of my stuff is set to open with Notepad...

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I just saw a small proportion of your video, i dont have much time now but what i saw, pretty cool!

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Posted: 9th Apr 2011 19:36
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heres an Idea... it has to be something running in your background, use task manager to eliminate unknown applications/services that are running ^^
word of caution though... do be careful what you disable, if in trivial doubt, just post back on here with a screen grab

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You could try running MSCONFIG and turn off all programs that startup (except important things like your virus scanner). In the Startup tab all boxes with checks automatically load when you turn your computer on (see attached image). Check them off and hit apply and reboot.

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Posted: 11th Apr 2011 04:30 Edited at: 11th Apr 2011 05:03
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I will definitely try that!

Well i didnt see anything that seemed to have nothing to do with HP or Windows, there were three ads that pop up when i start my computer that i unchecked, but again, nothing Notepad-ish...

Today I realized that you can lock a locked lock in a locker with a lock that is locked.
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Posted: 11th Apr 2011 07:17
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Have you tried running a spyware scanner like Spybot Search And Destroy?

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

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Posted: 11th Apr 2011 13:16
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Its probably not a virus, but an issue with one of your .INI files. Try this:

* Double Click on My Computer.
* Select Folder Option > View Tab.
* Under the View Tab select Show hidden files and folders.
* And also select Hide protected operation system files.
* Now you will be able to see the hidden destop.ini files.
* Open Windows 7 start orb and at the search type: shell:startup and press Enter.
* Inside the startup folder delete the desktop.ini file

Now restart your computer. It will not appear again.

Did this help?

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Posted: 11th Apr 2011 14:50
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aliens.

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Posted: 12th Apr 2011 01:48
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Desktop.ini sounds pretty important, are you sure?

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It just stores some basic resource data, windows normally creates a new one if you delete or move it, and there's usually one for every folder on your hard drive.

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Sweet ill try it then

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