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oscar52
oscar52 Posts: 2,272 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
....hope someone can help here..

I have a problem with my 'pooter.

I can be typing as I am here, then suddenly, the window closes.

Not just on Windows either - has happened with email also.

Any ideas?
No Longer works for MBNA as of August 2010 - redundancy money will be nice though.

Proud to be a Friend of Niddy.
no idea what my nerdnumber is - i am now officially nerd 229, no idea on my debt free date
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  • KILL_BILL
    KILL_BILL Posts: 2,183 Forumite
    have you done a thorugh virus/malware etc scan on your computer ?

    what os are you running and what memory/processor have you installed ?
  • oscar52
    oscar52 Posts: 2,272 Forumite
    Done virus scan (panda) and scans with ad-aware and spybot - all clean. (apart from registry entry for a poker site i used to play on - now removed)

    OS is XP Home

    Processor is Athlon - cant tell you exact speed, but know it was high spec around 12 months ago (think its about 2.5).

    Also, dont know if it makes a difference or not, but this seems to happen when pressing <space> - but obviously not all the time.
    No Longer works for MBNA as of August 2010 - redundancy money will be nice though.

    Proud to be a Friend of Niddy.
    no idea what my nerdnumber is - i am now officially nerd 229, no idea on my debt free date
  • oscar52
    oscar52 Posts: 2,272 Forumite
    bump......
    No Longer works for MBNA as of August 2010 - redundancy money will be nice though.

    Proud to be a Friend of Niddy.
    no idea what my nerdnumber is - i am now officially nerd 229, no idea on my debt free date
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Try superantispyware and go through the malware removal sticky posts 1 to 4.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • needaspirin
    needaspirin Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Photogenic
    Using internet explorer run a virus scan with Kaspersky online scanner
    http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner it's free, so doesn't remove any viruses found.
    Then download and run the trial version of spyware doctor.
    http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?ref=google_sd&gclid=CNfOoYvC2Y4CFQ0eEgodOCjhAw
    Again it won't remove any viruses found.
    Both are very good and if you find viruses you can ask on here how to remove them.
  • oscar52
    oscar52 Posts: 2,272 Forumite
    Aint got any viruses or malware installed amywhere, but its getting annoying - third time i have tried to post this reply
    No Longer works for MBNA as of August 2010 - redundancy money will be nice though.

    Proud to be a Friend of Niddy.
    no idea what my nerdnumber is - i am now officially nerd 229, no idea on my debt free date
  • Reluctant_spender
    Reluctant_spender Posts: 2,785 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    If you are sure it is not virus or malware related - is it a heat issue? Have you had your machine apart?
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Next time it happens go to:

    Right click my computer icon, / START / My Computer (icon) / MANAGE / EVENT VIEWER / SYSTEM

    And look for an error code around the date/time it shut down, then post it here.
  • mostly
    mostly Posts: 312 Forumite
    i used to have similar problems a few years back, that was due to a crappy psu.
  • tomsolomon
    tomsolomon Posts: 3,613 Forumite
    Yea I had something similar the other day. But instead of windows shutting down they were minimizing, and then magnifying. One of my cats walked over the keyboard lol. But cant remember what I did to rectify it, something to do with the function key and the keyboard layout, or shortcuts, dunno. If I remember I will post asap.
    To travel at the speed of light, one must first become light.....
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