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sherwin dubren
Two nights ago, my Vista system started to behave in a bizarre
fashion. Clicking on an desktop icon would bring up not just
one window, but a dozen or more windows. That window would
lock up making it difficult to close. Task manager invocation
from the command bar would only appear momentarily. The start
icon also just flashed for a second, then off. I finally was
able to invoke task manager with cntrl-alt-delete and kill the
open windows. This behavior persisted even after rebooting the
machine.
I ran my up to date AVG and no viruses were found. Strangely,
after one day, this weird behavior went away as quickly as it
came on.
I called Comcast thinking it may be something in the network
causing the problem. They re provisioned my modem, but the
problem was still there.
My question is what brought on this behavior, an operating
system quirk, bad handshakes with Comcast, or whatever.
Unfortunately, I did not have my error logs turned on. I
have done so now and if the problem re-appears, I might
get some info from them.
Sherwin
fashion. Clicking on an desktop icon would bring up not just
one window, but a dozen or more windows. That window would
lock up making it difficult to close. Task manager invocation
from the command bar would only appear momentarily. The start
icon also just flashed for a second, then off. I finally was
able to invoke task manager with cntrl-alt-delete and kill the
open windows. This behavior persisted even after rebooting the
machine.
I ran my up to date AVG and no viruses were found. Strangely,
after one day, this weird behavior went away as quickly as it
came on.
I called Comcast thinking it may be something in the network
causing the problem. They re provisioned my modem, but the
problem was still there.
My question is what brought on this behavior, an operating
system quirk, bad handshakes with Comcast, or whatever.
Unfortunately, I did not have my error logs turned on. I
have done so now and if the problem re-appears, I might
get some info from them.
Sherwin