Frequent Computer Crashes

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Pete
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Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.36
Location: Dundee

Neil Jones wrote:QTTASK.EXE - Quicktime icon in the system tray, not needed, use Control Panel.
I always thought it was the newer plugin for IE. I remember when IE6 dropped support for the old netscape plugins you had to go and visit apple's site to get the new ActiveX control. It was about then QTTASK appeared in my ctrl, alt, del list.

I'd go on a long trudge through most of these programs's options panels to try and disable as much gumf as possible.

Kazaa lite btw can be downloaded from http://www.oldversion.com, which has been disabled. Bugger. If you want I'll stick it online for you, just ask, (and install Mozilla ;) ).
"He has to be larger than bacon"
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Neil Jones
Posts: 661
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2003 20.03
Location: West Midlands

Hymagumba wrote:
Neil Jones wrote:QTTASK.EXE - Quicktime icon in the system tray, not needed, use Control Panel.
I always thought it was the newer plugin for IE. I remember when IE6 dropped support for the old netscape plugins you had to go and visit apple's site to get the new ActiveX control. It was about then QTTASK appeared in my ctrl, alt, del list.
When I was on Win98 Gold all I found that Qttask.exe did was stick a blue Q in the system tray which provided the option to configure QuickTime. It was never in my experience of any real benefit and apart from the configuration element of the software it didn't seem to have anything else to do with QuickTime short of essentially being an "on-screen DOG" bottom right for it.
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Pete
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Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.36
Location: Dundee

I think QuickTime for Windows is a very annoying program. It's obnoxious, petty, unstable and generally a very bad port from Mac.

iTunes is also a tad obnoxious but at least it's stable.
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Neil Jones
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Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2003 20.03
Location: West Midlands

Add to that of course it's bloody arrogant that the software insists on shoving the taskbar icon back into the startup list every single time you use the damned quicktime software for whatever reason.

Why do programmers do this? Why are they so damn insistent on having their program logo in the system tray? It's like Microsoft getting the Messenger program to load every time you look at your email in Hotmail's web interface. I just got rid of the damn Messenger folder.

Although I do now keep seeing this in my Event Viewer in WinXP:
Unable to start a DCOM Server: {FB7199AB-79BF-11D2-8D94-0000F875C541}. The error:
"The system cannot find the path specified. "
Happened while starting this command:
"C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" -Embedding
Not that it bothers me :)
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rts
Posts: 1637
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 14.09

Maybe try increasing your computers virtual memory.
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Chris
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Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 19.03
Location: Surrey

rts wrote:Maybe try increasing your computers virtual memory.
Using more virtual memory once you have run out of physical will dramatically slow down your computer to a crawl. If you need to increase your memory, then get more RAM or shut down programs you don't need.
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Adders
Posts: 218
Joined: Fri 22 Aug, 2003 14.38

That bliss was short lived, unfortunately it has gone back to it's hanging ways.
Here is the scan again
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 18:36:24, on 14/06/04
Platform: Windows 98 Gold (Win9x 4.10.1998)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPOOL32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\PTSNOOP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\STARTER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\LOADQM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\P2P NETWORKING\P2P NETWORKING.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\UPDMGR\UPDMGR.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\CMEII\CMESYS.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\HIGHCRITERIA\TOTALRECORDER\TOTRECSCHED.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\TWAIN_32\SIPIX\SCDELUXE\DELUXECC.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\RunDLL.exe
C:\PROGRAM FILES\AIM95\AIM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSWHEEL.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSN MESSENGER\MSNMSGR.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\GMT\GMT.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDHELP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\HIJACKTHIS.EXE

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Netline (UK) Internet
F1 - win.ini: load=PTSNOOP.EXE
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} - C:\PROGRA~1\DYNAMI~1\ALTAVI~1\ALTAVI~1.DLL
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O3 - Toolbar: @msdxmLC.dll,-1@1033,&Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSDXM.OCX
O3 - Toolbar: AltaVista Toolbar - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} - C:\PROGRA~1\DYNAMI~1\ALTAVI~1\ALTAVI~1.DLL
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ScanRegistry] c:\windows\scanregw.exe /autorun
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TaskMonitor] c:\windows\taskmon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SystemTray] SysTray.Exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EnsoniqMixer] starter.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [POINTER] C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\point32.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadQM] loadqm.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P NETWORKING] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\P2P NETWORKING\P2P NETWORKING.EXE /AUTOSTART
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [updmgr] C:\Program Files\Common files\updmgr\updmgr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CMESys] "C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\CMEII\CMESYS.EXE"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TotalRecorderScheduler] "C:\Program Files\HighCriteria\TotalRecorder\TotRecSched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DELUXECC] C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\SiPix\SCDeluxe\DELUXECC.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [StillImageMonitor] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [SchedulingAgent] mstask.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Taskbar Display Controls] RunDLL deskcp16.dll,QUICKRES_RUNDLLENTRY
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AIM] C:\PROGRAM FILES\AIM95\aim.exe -cnetwait.odl
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "c:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" /background
O4 - Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Cac&hed Snapshot of Page - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmcache.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Si&milar Pages - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward &Links - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmbacklinks.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate into English - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmtrans.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: AltaVista Search - file://C:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\ALTAVISTA\Cache\SelectedContextSearch.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate - file://C:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\ALTAVISTA\Cache\SelectedContextTranslation.htm
O9 - Extra button: Related (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: AIM (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: ICQ 4.0 (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: ICQ Lite (HKLM)
O16 - DPF: Win32 Classes - file://c:\windows\Java\classes\win32ie4.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... wflash.cab
O16 - DPF: {1D6711C8-7154-40BB-8380-3DEA45B69CBF} (Web P2P Installer) -
O16 - DPF: {166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000} (Shockwave ActiveX Control) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... tor/sw.cab
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Chat - http://us.chat1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ ... 1/chat.cab
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Dots - http://download.games.yahoo.com/games/c ... dtt1_x.cab
O16 - DPF: DigiChat Applet - http://chat2me.mine.nu/DigiClasses/Client_IE.cab
O16 - DPF: YExplorer1_8US.CAB - http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/ocx/us/y ... r1_8us.cab
O16 - DPF: {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} (AltaVista Toolbar) - http://toolbar.altavista.com/static/too ... 1083489283
O16 - DPF: {00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-1AA7A44296DA} - http://www.addictivetechnologies.net/DM ... vnator.cab
O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} (Update Class) - http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/C ... 5684722222
O16 - DPF: {8E0D4DE5-3180-4024-A327-4DFAD1796A8D} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/Me ... b28177.cab
O16 - DPF: {00B71CFB-6864-4346-A978-C0A14556272C} (Checkers Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/ms ... b28177.cab
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Anonymous

Beeb2 wrote:That bliss was short lived, unfortunately it has gone back to it's hanging ways.
Here is the scan again
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 18:36:24, on 14/06/04
Platform: Windows 98 Gold (Win9x 4.10.1998)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPOOL32.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\PTSNOOP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\STARTER.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\LOADQM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\P2P NETWORKING\P2P NETWORKING.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\UPDMGR\UPDMGR.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\CMEII\CMESYS.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\HIGHCRITERIA\TOTALRECORDER\TOTRECSCHED.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\TWAIN_32\SIPIX\SCDELUXE\DELUXECC.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\RunDLL.exe
C:\PROGRAM FILES\AIM95\AIM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSWHEEL.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MSN MESSENGER\MSNMSGR.EXE
C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\GMT\GMT.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDHELP.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\HIJACKTHIS.EXE

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Netline (UK) Internet
F1 - win.ini: load=PTSNOOP.EXE
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} - C:\PROGRA~1\DYNAMI~1\ALTAVI~1\ALTAVI~1.DLL
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O3 - Toolbar: @msdxmLC.dll,-1@1033,&Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSDXM.OCX
O3 - Toolbar: AltaVista Toolbar - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} - C:\PROGRA~1\DYNAMI~1\ALTAVI~1\ALTAVI~1.DLL
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ScanRegistry] c:\windows\scanregw.exe /autorun
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TaskMonitor] c:\windows\taskmon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SystemTray] SysTray.Exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EnsoniqMixer] starter.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [POINTER] C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\point32.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadQM] loadqm.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P NETWORKING] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\P2P NETWORKING\P2P NETWORKING.EXE /AUTOSTART
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [updmgr] C:\Program Files\Common files\updmgr\updmgr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CMESys] "C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\CMEII\CMESYS.EXE"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TotalRecorderScheduler] "C:\Program Files\HighCriteria\TotalRecorder\TotRecSched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DELUXECC] C:\WINDOWS\twain_32\SiPix\SCDeluxe\DELUXECC.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [StillImageMonitor] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [LoadPowerProfile] Rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,LoadCurrentPwrScheme
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [SchedulingAgent] mstask.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Taskbar Display Controls] RunDLL deskcp16.dll,QUICKRES_RUNDLLENTRY
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [AIM] C:\PROGRAM FILES\AIM95\aim.exe -cnetwait.odl
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MsnMsgr] "c:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe" /background
O4 - Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Cac&hed Snapshot of Page - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmcache.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Si&milar Pages - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Backward &Links - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmbacklinks.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate into English - res://C:\PROGRAM FILES\GOOGLE\GOOGLETOOLBAR2.DLL/cmtrans.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: AltaVista Search - file://C:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\ALTAVISTA\Cache\SelectedContextSearch.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate - file://C:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\ALTAVISTA\Cache\SelectedContextTranslation.htm
O9 - Extra button: Related (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Show &Related Links (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: AIM (HKLM)
O9 - Extra button: ICQ 4.0 (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: ICQ Lite (HKLM)
O16 - DPF: Win32 Classes - file://c:\windows\Java\classes\win32ie4.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... wflash.cab
O16 - DPF: {1D6711C8-7154-40BB-8380-3DEA45B69CBF} (Web P2P Installer) -
O16 - DPF: {166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000} (Shockwave ActiveX Control) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... tor/sw.cab
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Chat - http://us.chat1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ ... 1/chat.cab
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Dots - http://download.games.yahoo.com/games/c ... dtt1_x.cab
O16 - DPF: DigiChat Applet - http://chat2me.mine.nu/DigiClasses/Client_IE.cab
O16 - DPF: YExplorer1_8US.CAB - http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/ocx/us/y ... r1_8us.cab
O16 - DPF: {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-92EA-EC65A294AE31} (AltaVista Toolbar) - http://toolbar.altavista.com/static/too ... 1083489283
O16 - DPF: {00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-1AA7A44296DA} - http://www.addictivetechnologies.net/DM ... vnator.cab
O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} (Update Class) - http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/C ... 5684722222
O16 - DPF: {8E0D4DE5-3180-4024-A327-4DFAD1796A8D} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/Me ... b28177.cab
O16 - DPF: {00B71CFB-6864-4346-A978-C0A14556272C} (Checkers Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/ms ... b28177.cab
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Cheese Head
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Posts: 918
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 13.39
Location: Rockhampton, Australia

Get a great big metal mallet, smash your tower then claim insurance. Or similar.
» James »
I don't know my future after this weekend, and I don't want to
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cdd
Posts: 2621
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 14.05

Cheese Head wrote:Get a great big metal mallet, smash your tower then claim insurance. Or similar.
Nooononono, it needs to look like an accident - perhaps it could "slip" out of the window? ;)
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