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08-27-2003, 01:30 PM
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Startbar has disappeared
My bosses computer is all messed up, his startbar has disappeared.
I scaned for viruses via housecall, found 10 pr0n viruses but that didn't clear things up..
He's using winxp home
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08-27-2003, 01:52 PM
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This sounds kinda dumb, but try moving the mouse down there and see if you get a resize cursor. When my Explorer crashed (WinXP here too), it hid the taskbar.
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08-27-2003, 01:58 PM
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In 98, you can relocate the startbar to each side and the top of the screen.... is it somewhere else besides the bottom? I know that sounds dumb, but some folks don;t know that it can be moved and resized.
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08-27-2003, 02:05 PM
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I should of said it nowhere to be found, no resize no nothing  | |
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08-28-2003, 08:32 AM
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have you tried logging on as a different user?
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08-28-2003, 08:34 AM
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did you run Adaware or Spybot?
u never know.
also, did you check on the task manager? is explorer runing?
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08-28-2003, 08:36 AM
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I'll go over and do those later today, i'll see what's up
How cna you get to adaware with no startbar?
Last edited by iNeb; 08-28-2003 at 08:45 AM.
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08-28-2003, 09:17 AM
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I'm over at his house, EXPLORER.EXE is running and i got ad-aware to run CRTL-ALT-DEL (New task)
Scanning now
BTW, there is no icons, and you can't right click at all
Last edited by iNeb; 08-28-2003 at 09:20 AM.
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08-28-2003, 02:21 PM
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It looks like he had a virus that started up "winupdate.exe" in the windows directory..
I was messing around and end task on winupdate.exe and deleted it out of the registry and that is what caused it
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08-28-2003, 02:24 PM
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what is exactly a pron virus?  (yes i know pron, means porn. But you cant get a virus from a mpeg or avi unless he downloaded from somewhere hotgirlsmakelove.exe)
make sure you do another scan with http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
just to make sure all is fine. Run windows update and slap him on the wrist
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