On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:23:49 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:50:31 +0100, Hugh Gundersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>... but somehow - and I >>have no idea where or how as I had firewall and antivirus and antispywear >>running + hardware firewall in Router but..... >> >>I had a nastie that had a timer running that froze the computer after ten >>mins then 8 then 7 then...... >> >>With a lot of rebooting during installs it finally got to me and didn't >>give me time to run regedt32 to stop the run command to find out what it >>was. Had similar before but this was awful. > >I don't know how you came across the 'nastie', but do you suppose >that it might not have caused as much/any trouble if you weren't >running as administrator? > > /Bernie\
That's the point Bernie - I wasn't! I was very surprised to see "Administrator" at log on screen when it originally went belly up - probably due to the faulty CD/DVD burner. The nastie came when I was finishing off installing software so at that time I had to be the administrator.... Sir Hugh of Bognor Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it! Hugh Gundersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bognor-bill.co.uk Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK ------------------------------------------------- Vyisder Asmeni Orsisarsis Asderisorsis. B.Cozderiz Vunarz PERORZ ------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
