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Thread ID: 9449	2001-05-28 01:05:00	Wininit.exe	Guest (0)	Press F1

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13280	2001-05-28 01:05:00	Recently I received a virus via email, which my Norton Anti-Virus 2001 duly dealt with. The problem now is that whenever I start my computer up, Wininit.exe shows on the task bar. When opened on to the screen, there is a message in DOS print reading 'WININIT.EXE cannot be run from Windows'. All I do then is close the message and there appears to be no further problems during the day. How can I stop this happening every day and what is Wininit?	Guest (0)
13281	2001-05-28 03:19:00	The virus will have left a 'load=wininit....' box in the startup section of msconfig. Click start run then type msconfig go to the startup tab and untick the load=wininit. I havn't been able to find any way of actually deleting the line but this worked for me. Good luck!	Guest (0)
13282	2001-06-03 08:46:00	Thanks for giving this bit of help to Steve, I had the same problem but it was opening five boxes. Your fix meant I had to untick five lines which I did, it fixed the problem.	Guest (0)
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