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I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and windows

xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes

after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off

screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart

the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are

these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help?

 

JIMJ

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    When I had that problem it was due to an infestation of malware. I needed

    both Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and maybe a few other

    programs which I can't remember now to thoroughly clean things up.

     

     

    "jimj" <jimj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

    news:3531DF1E-8A6B-4665-A38D-6E3DBDD0BF8E@microsoft.com...

    >I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and

    >windows

    > xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes

    > after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off

    > screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart

    > the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are

    > these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help?

    >

    > JIMJ

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    "jimj" wrote

    >I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4700 pent 4 with 1 gig of ram and

    >windows

    > xp home edition. When I attempt to log off, it will take about 3 minutes

    > after I click the turn off computer icon to get to the restart/turn off

    > screen and an addition two minutes to acctually shut down. When I restart

    > the next time some of the desktop icons will rearrainge themselves. Are

    > these problems related or are they seperate issues. Can you help?

     

    See these links:

     

    http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

     

    Resources to help troubleshoot shutdown problems in Windows XP

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308029/en-us

     

    Malware Removal

    http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

     

    THE PARASITE FIGHT

    Finding, Removing & Protecting Yourself From Scumware

    http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm

     

    Richard Harper’s Guide to Cleaning Pests

    http://rgharper.mvps.org/cleanit.htm

     

    --

    Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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