Programmes startup by themselves

[Donald]

Toshiba Qosmio F20 laptop

XPsp2

 

Symptoms:

MS Outlook 2003 and/or Windows Media Player 10 startup all by themselves. This is happens when the machine is left idle for a while. The programmes kick in after about 5 - 10 minutes.

 

After closing the progs down, they will restart after a similar period. On closing them down a couple of times, they seem not to restart again. BUT with similar periods, the machine 'beeps' as if trying to do somthing but can't.

 

I have Norton Security and scanned - no problems reported.

I have checked every process in Task Manager with online process websites. Again nothing untoward found.

Likewise I have checked each entry in ...windows\current version\run and all seem to be kosher!

 

For the time being, I have switched off the WiFi and do not let the laptop onto internet incase something is 'robbing' data from Outlook or the machine.

 

Any clues on how to stop these 2 progs from randomly starting up? Thanks

[maynardvdm]

Hi You can also to an online virus scan just to make double sure its not a virus cuasing this try this one from trend micro : http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[danzil]

start>run type in "msconfig" no qoutes....on the startup tab list everything that is ticked and post it back....

download hijack this scan and save the notepad doc....paste it to us here.

regards

danzil