Please give the complete configuration of your computer:ĭo you mean to say that your computer completely hangs or it runs This is on a FRESH, CLEAN install, mind you.Īny advice would be appreciated, it's the strangest thing I've ever seen. The taskbar is NOT locked, and the system thinks it is. Right now, my system is in the process of being restored, and only has Total Commander, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Kaspersky installed from fresh downloads - and not only this symptom has persisted, the Windows desktop is now locked as well - as In I cannot reposition icons, use drag and drop from the desktop, OR add to/ rearrange ANYTHIGN in the Quick Launch area. Here's the weird thing: The symptom survived the reformat. So, wanting to be safe and sure, I reformatted the system drive completely using a Full format, and reinstalled Windows XP from my original disk. sys file iunthe Windows directory that didn't seem to be being used by anything. On visual insptection, my system had a funkily-namede.

I run the latest version of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, fully updated - and it's detected nothing. Then, the system will 'regain focus' and respond for a bit - tonly to have the symptom repeat. Recently, it got hit with a truly strange symptom - the system will 'lose focus' (stop responding to ANY keyboard/mouse input until Task Manager is run, and a item in Task Manager is clicked on. I have a Windows XP Professional computer that's run just fine since 2003.

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