Question

Darth Henry

this bast@rd computer i'm on in college keeps opening things by itself, pinball, notepad, word, freecell, internet explorer, calculator, etc etc etc.

any ideas how i stop it?

its bloody annoying.

SoundWave

turn it off and move to a different computer?

do you have tekkies that can sort it?

Raz

Switch computer
Really though, it sounds like a virus to me. One of those really irritating ones. You could press "ctrl+shift+Esc" and see what programs are running, and possibly stop it from there.

Darth Henry

Originally posted by Raz
You could press "ctrl+shift+Esc" and see what programs are running, and possibly stop it from there.

"Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator"

:mad:

Darth Henry

Originally posted by Raz
Switch computer

i'm comfy now!

Raz

The things we must suffer for our comfort

hulhi

does it do that when you start your computer or randomly?
1. when you start your computer
go to "start menu-programs-startup" delete unwanted items from there, depending on the OS you running you might have to start explorer and go to "all users-start menu-startup" (usually hidden folder, resides in either winnt, windows, documents and settings, depending on your installation) and delete them from there aswell
2. Random
could be a virus or bug (though i never heard of one that does this) or somebody's been playing with scheduler, go to
"control panel-scheduled tasks" you shuld see some (maybe none if it's not the case) tasks go through them and delete unnecessary items from there,
good luck

Capt'n Midnight

(ok dodgy chip in the mouse)
used to be a logitech mouse program that did weird stuff like that - dirty big Eircom type rat in control panel - kept swapping icons and stuff.