I came into work yesterday and my monitor settings were all messed up when I booted up my computer. The top was on the bottom, the bottom was on the top, and I had no taskbar. After messing with it, we disconnected the monitor and that was OK.

In the process I checked the programs running. I had a TON of programs running that I had not started. A couple of re-boots and all was well. BUT, I kept hearing the sound of a door shutting, such as you hear when you are signed on to an instant messenger service and I was NOT signed on.

This AM I could not open a program and fiddled with that a bit. I ended up uninstalling that program and installing another. No problem. I have run Norton, AdAware and Spy bot and did a check disk. Norton found nothing. AdAware and Spy bot found a few things which I deleted the disk is fine.

One of the programs I uninstalled was a Norton browser which included the Instant Messenger program, and today on certain web sites (not this one) I get the door slamming sound again.

Any suggestions? If not, my computer will get a quick check up at lunch from the guy I bought it from.

 

Never mind..........I think it was something simple and yesterday's issue was just a weird happening.

 

download a free program called

ad-aware from here

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

and update the program

then download clean-up from here

http://www.stevengould.org/downloads.../CleanUp40.exe

 

Thanks!

I had the Ad-Aware, but not the other one. I'll check that out too.

 

Yes clean up is a good program to clean out the temp files, cache, cookies and what not. You'd be surprised at the amount of space you'll get back.