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February 19th, 2004 13:00
windows games start automatically
im having a wierd glitch with my windows games. sometimes they will open by themselves, when i have not chosen to execute them. any ideas as to why this is happening?
dan r.
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meryl_streep
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February 20th, 2004 17:00
computers can't do anything on their own, so something has to be telling these applications to open.
Maybe a batch program, script, scheduled task....
Which ones are opening and how often do they do it?
cuseman24
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February 24th, 2004 15:00
Darth_V
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February 25th, 2004 01:00
meryl_streep
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February 25th, 2004 18:00
It could be a virus, a full system scan with recent virus definitions installed is always a good start.
Solitaire is S O L.exe (without the spaces) located in the C:\Winnt\System32\ folder on most systems. If you rename the file to something like S O L.old (without the spaces) whatever tries to autoexecute it will generate an error and hopefully some kind of onscreen warning, which may help you isolate what's doing this.
Sorry for the confusing nature of the post but apparently S O L is considered profanity by some genius at Dell:
Message Body: Message body contains invalid content. Please do not use profanity in your post. Profanity is not tolerated on these boards. (Word: S O L)