Strange behavior

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[Life of a one-man IT department] Now I had seen similar behavior with another of our older laptops, where explorer.exe was locking up at boot, so the first thing I did was Ctrl-Alt-Delete to bring up the Task Manager. Much to my surprise the Task Manager window opened, but only the very bottom right-hand corner of it was visible.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[IntSecure - Internet Security for Newbies] Beware of Active X: Microsoft created Active X to compete with Java so this technology is common for Internet Explorer. When you go to a webpage that requires an Active X program to run a certain portion of the webpage or install something for your browser you will receive and Active X dialog box like this:

[A Consuming Experience] Google Web Accelerator (GWA): panacea, or peril?: Thanks for your comments, guys. Yeah I'm always looking for more speed, but as I mentioned, 10 minutes saved in 3 or 4 days isn't really much, and also interestingly I twice had to restart for my browsers to go anywhere and my email to talk to any mail servers - it may be a coincidence but I didn't have that issue before I installed GWA. I've now uninstalled it as, for me anyway, it was more trouble than it was worth, not going to the right pages, not getting into sites etc.

[IntSecure - Internet Security for Newbies] Active X - friend or foe?: to press the x in the top righthand corner or use task manager to stop the browser For more... created Active X to compete with Java so this technology is common for Internet Explorer. When you... an .exe(executable) file on your computer This Active X technology for installing programs can be very

[Geekstogo.com] Geeks To Go Forums -> My Desktop has Disappeared: I deleted kb32.exe using a piece of software called Killbot - which had successfully removed many other intruders. When i rebooted, the XP login screen appeared, the opening music played once I'd clicked on the user profile icon - then the desktop background image appeared - but nothing else.

[Profundis.co.uk] Pete Cole's WebLog - Thursday, 01 April 2004: Both the Shell (as in Explorer, not cmd.exe (or Monad)*) and Internet Explorer ... Perfect for a blog entry. Avalon SDK team, why don't you setup a blog on ...

[Daniweb.com] Problems on WinXP with Spyware/Adware, PopUps, etc.: That way, if you mistakenly delete something you shouldn't have with HJT, you can recover from the mistake with the backup files. You can create a folder for HJT in any location by opening Windows Explorer and:

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Posted at June 15, 2005 11:00 AM