foggysail

Looking backwards, one is quick to see mistakes made. In this case the mistake was not printing the scanned output. I do recall however some files named Troj. That seems to simple but that is what I recall. Is there a virus named Trojan??? The very name Trojan seems like it would be a dead give away if anybody went specifically looking for it. It is so damned easy to take things such as an operating computer for granted. Foggy

Sampson, thank you for your prompt reply! I did find the same problem later posted over on the Asus board. The recommended fix was to check for a virus. I did fix the thing but it took several hours. I first purchased Winvirus or something like that. Tried to download using my wife's account. Darn thing would not download, I believe the problem at the sender's end. Message was "could not download for technical reasons but will be available the next time I start the computer." NO, I cancelled the order via my CC. Visited TrendMicro and got a free scan---using my wife's account because keyboard froze on mine. The scan found NUMEROUS risky files including virus contamination. But all the bad files were in my /program/ locations that were protected from Wifey's intrusion. They could not be deleted. To make matters worse, 75% of the times I start my machine, I get a "fan error" that requires pushing f1. Guess what! Keyboard was frozen until Windows starts in Wifey's account. What I was trying to do was get into protected mode, administrator's account. Well after playing the start/shut off game for a while, I finally was able to get into Safe Mode and logged in as administrator. Here I was able to use Microsoft's Repair or what ever its called. Set the date back almost a week for the new base line and whatever MIcrosoft's program did, it ultimately fixed my problem. Like new again. Thank you for showing interest in my agony! Foggy

Could not get into safe mode, keyboard inactive during startup until I get logged into wife's account. Did delete the Logitech drivers and reloaded from their disk. Something keeps trying to get into the machine. While I was tying this, 3-4 attempts asking me to check an OK box for something or other. Until those boxes were cleared, the keyboard was inactive.

You're not alone! I am running XP with two user accounts on my machine, one for me and for my wife. Was typing away earlier today and the keyboard failed. Thought it was batteries, was not. Changed keyboards-- same problem. Now here is where it gets interesting. Restarted computer but in my wife's account instead of mine. NO PROBLEM, keyboard fine. Changed accounts and this time got a fatal fault relating to my mother board, an Asus K8V Delux. Required using the power switch to get out. Again-- wife's account fine, mine still has the "Asus Probe 2=> Cannot creae shell notification icon." Thats where I am at. Just found this website so I inted to look into the device manager as mentioned in earlier posts Foggy--- very much in a fog!