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| Thread ID: 70800 | 2006-07-16 21:45:00 | Autoplay runs constantly up to 6 separate windows popping up evey other second | Grantismo (10750) | Press F1 |
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| 471393 | 2006-07-17 02:57:00 | If you look at the previous thread i cited earlier you can get a pretty good picture of the problem . I already have autoplay turned off for all the drives i see . I cannot see the autoplay box when i'm in safe mode,SurferJoe46, just after i followed your directions and rebooted in standard mode after using HJT in safe mode . I checked the process of autoplayer and its explorer . exe so i know its not malicious . I think there is just an error somewhere . heres an image ( . fileden . com/files/2006/5/29/41767/Autoplay . GIF" target="_blank">www . fileden . com) %EDIT% Oh and I just saw your post SurferJoe46, I tried that but it just keeps coming . Thanks for the idea though . |
Grantismo (10750) | ||
| 471394 | 2006-07-17 03:05:00 | If you look at the previous thread i cited earlier you can get a pretty good picture of the problem . I already have autoplay turned off for all the drives i see . I cannot see the autoplay box when i'm in safe mode,SurferJoe46, just after i followed your directions and rebooted in standard mode after using HJT in safe mode . I checked the process of autoplayer and its explorer . exe so i know its not malicious . I think there is just an error somewhere . heres an image ( . fileden . com/files/2006/5/29/41767/Autoplay . GIF" target="_blank">www . fileden . com) Oh and I just saw your post SurferJoe46, I tried that but it just keeps coming . Thanks for the idea though . Hmm . . . now I smell a rat . . . . In Safe Mode, you drop a lot of the peripherals and drivers for hardware and a lot of software too cannot be run or executed . Makes me think you've got a botched command line somewhere . . . like a corrupted . exe or . dll . There may be a prefetch acting up too . . . . . Just for kicks, do you know how to empty the prefetch area? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 471395 | 2006-07-17 04:07:00 | Yup, I just cleared my prefetch area yet still keeps popping up. I was wondering whther their was an alternative way to disable autoplay as mentioned in that earlier thread. bob_doe_nz said: 2000 - XP: Click Start / Run / gpedit.msc / click enter Click the + next to "User Configuration" / Administrative Templates / Click on System / Look for an entry called "Turn Off Autoplay" / Right Click / Select "Enable" / reboot. (imagef1.net.nz) I've checked my entire computer and i couldn't find anything similar to the "Group Policy" program. I was just curious if XP has something under a different name, because I definitely can't run anything called gpedit.msc |
Grantismo (10750) | ||
| 471396 | 2006-07-17 04:21:00 | Group policy is only on XP Pro, not XP home. I would have a look in the registry HKey>local machine>software>microsoft>current version>run is there anything there that you dont recognise? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 471397 | 2006-07-17 04:33:00 | I didn't see anything unusual, although i must admit, I'm not very familiar with what is normally in the registry, I have run a bunch of registry cleaners though, to no avail. |
Grantismo (10750) | ||
| 471398 | 2006-07-17 04:36:00 | Have you used msconfig to switch off everything that starts at statup, and then add applications start up as you test? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 471399 | 2006-07-17 05:04:00 | THANK YOU SOOO MUCH, that was so much easier than i expected. After booting and then slowly starting all the programs listed under my original startup items list, i learned that the culprit was an application called apdproxy.exe it has something to do with adobe. Strange that something so small can caouse such a problem. |
Grantismo (10750) | ||
| 471400 | 2006-07-17 05:24:00 | Well done OP, sometimes its hard to picture what is wrong soley by word description and without knowing the pc history. Good to hear its resolved. |
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