XREF Application error Please help!!

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Lou

I'm not a PC person so forgive me for any screw ups on
placing this question. My PC started rebooting itself
every few minutes for no reason at all a few days back.
I traced it back to an application in my startup folder
called XREF. When I delete the active process, the PC is
stable until the Application regenerates in the startup
folder again and comes back. It is driving me crazy
because I don't know where it comes from or what it is.
Does anyone know of this??? Please help... I do delete
it from the recycle bin but it comes back.. It restarts
when I open a new Explorer window .. Thanks LT
 
A quick search of XREF leads me to believe that it a program related to the
National Center for Human Genome Research. Do you have anything to do with
them? Did you delete the XREF reference from your startup folder? Do that.
If you have nothing to do with the National Center for Human Genome
Research, I would go to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs and see if you can
remove it from there. Then I'd scan my machine for viruses. The I'd get
Adaware and SpyBot S&D (both have free versions, check google.com) and run
both to remove spyware. Then take a look at your registry keys
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete any reference
to XREF.
 
Lou,

Don't ever haul off and remove anything from the ole pooter until you know
what it will do. Many a time folks have done this, and have to FORMAT and do
a FRESH INSTALL.

If you aren't practicing Safe Hex (AVP, hardware or software firewall, and
adequate user controls), try this.
Do an anti virus scan on line first. www.housecall.antivirus.com (not
difficult). If anything shows up, write it(them) down, and do exactly what
it says to do in the order it says to do it. You can run the name of any
worms or virii on google and get a "fixtool" at one of the antivirus
vendors. If your clean, that's great.

Then defrag. Then...
press Windows key+R(or Start | Run...), type CMD /k (you can copy and paste
that into the box), then type CHKDSK /F /R /V (to run a checkdisk, similar
to scandisk in w98), when the question comes up type "y"(without quotes)
press enter, then type "exit", enter. This will be performed on your next
startup and should take up to an hour.
So before you do it, make sure you allow enough time for it to complete.

Note: The XREF may have something to do with Java.

don
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I'm not a PC person so forgive me for any screw ups on
placing this question. My PC started rebooting itself
every few minutes for no reason at all a few days back.
I traced it back to an application in my startup folder
called XREF. When I delete the active process, the PC is
stable until the Application regenerates in the startup
folder again and comes back. It is driving me crazy
because I don't know where it comes from or what it is.
Does anyone know of this??? Please help... I do delete
it from the recycle bin but it comes back.. It restarts
when I open a new Explorer window .. Thanks LT
 
I'm not really 100% sure
http://www.xref-tech.com/java2html/

don
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I did see a reference to human genome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/XREFdb/
And I don't claim to be knowledgeable about XREF either

But I do know if someone deletes something they may need, without being sure
about where it came from, it can turn out to be an "oh dammit"
Maybe someone who knows, may add some help...
This is not an ego thing for me. I'm just not wanting the guy to screw his
box up.

Lou,
Be sure and make an ERD and do a total backup with the registry checked at
least to your desktop temporarily before nuking anything.

don
 
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