Hello friends,
My XP box has me so puzzled. I have been playing with it for 4 days now and I can't figure this out.....
on the 26th I suffered a virus attack and between SAS Mbam and avira I rounded up like 12 or so viruses and malware objects.
I thought everything was good... But now its running slow... and won't let me open things.... Stuff works when I first power on but performance degrades rapidly and soon nothing opens. I will click a program like firefox and it will give me the symbol like its going to come up, then it never does. Also it won't shutdown either. Either it gets to just my wallpaper and hangs, or gets to the saving your settings screen and hangs. And that's only if I type shutdown in command prompt (if I can even get the command prompt to open....) If i click shutdown it acts the same as If I'm trying to open a program. Same if I try to bring up task manager.
Today it did something even different. I was trying to find the problem and playing with different things when things quit responding as usual... so i clicked shutdown. Well it was the weirdest thing... all of a suddent my computer was alive again and all the things I had tried to open in the last 10 minutes all opened up. including like ten task managers and various other control panel items I was trying to access...
I closed out of those things thinking I was good to go again... and now I'm right back where I was...
Anyone have any clue what is going on here??? I'm pretty frustrated cause I can't use my XP box for anything and its my favorite :(