My Computer Doesn't Want to Come in for Work Today.

UnrealClock · March 21, 2008, 10:47:02 PM

Ok, as I'm really curious to figure out what the fuck is going on with my computer quickly, I'm posting this in general. So every time I turn on my PC, explorer.exe doesn't start. So I have to go into the task manager and start the process manually. It works, but seriously what the fuck is going on? I haven't installed anything weird lately. Any ideas children?

Slash · March 21, 2008, 10:48:22 PM

OMGOMG FIREFOX R ROX YIFFYIFFYIFF

UnrealClock · March 21, 2008, 10:49:28 PM

Quote from: SlashClock;1259858OMGOMG FIREFOX R ROX YIFFYIFFYIFF

Aparentally you have no fucking clue what explorer.exe is.

Wind-up Clock · March 21, 2008, 10:50:05 PM

You sure it's turned on?

run msconfig and see it it's activated in the services tab or something.

Slash · March 21, 2008, 10:50:43 PM

I read ie explorer, oh well

I'm pretty sure there should be a file in C:/windows/prefetch/ that should be starting explorer when the computer strats.

UnrealClock · March 21, 2008, 10:52:16 PM

Quote from: Wind-up Clock;1259862You sure it's turned on?

run msconfig and see it it's activated in the services tab or something.

It's in there, I just checked my running processes and saw something called gun.exe. Any idea what the hell it is? I have already stopped it from running any further in case of the worst.

Wind-up Clock · March 21, 2008, 10:54:04 PM

Quote from: UnrealClock;1259866It's in there, I just checked my running processes and saw something called gun.exe. Any idea what the hell it is? I have already stopped it from running any further in case of the worst.

I dunno. Googlecheck turns up two main things: exe for Gunz (game), or a spyware/malware file.

VCRClock · March 21, 2008, 10:55:23 PM

Quote from: Wind-up Clock;1259867I dunno. Googlecheck turns up two main things: exe for Gunz (game), or a spyware/malware file.

I wonder which one it is.

FluxCapacitorClock · March 21, 2008, 10:56:33 PM

Quote from: Wind-up Clock;1259867I dunno. Googlecheck turns up two main things: exe for Gunz (game), or a spyware/malware file.

Unreal are you currently playing Gunz? _poogle_

Wind-up Clock · March 21, 2008, 10:57:16 PM

Further Googlechecking says that it won't start up because of a virus or a setting.

How dirty is your computer?

UnrealClock · March 21, 2008, 10:59:27 PM

Quote from: Wind-up Clock;1259873Further Googlechecking says that it won't start up because of a virus or a setting.

How dirty is your computer?

Maybe I should stop fantasizing about slicing people up with my swords, and I wiped my hard-drive like 3 days ago, so it should be clean as a whistle, unless MAME somehow transformed into a Super-Virus!

FluxCapacitorClock · March 21, 2008, 11:02:49 PM

I'd do a virus scan if I were you...

Wind-up Clock · March 21, 2008, 11:03:23 PM

Quote from: UnrealClock;1259877Maybe I should stop fantasizing about slicing people up with my swords, and I wiped my hard-drive like 3 days ago, so it should be clean as a whistle, unless MAME somehow transformed into a Super-Virus!

Perhaps you have a residual virus on another drive.

MarshmallowClock · March 21, 2008, 11:20:46 PM

Happened to me.

Skip yourself the trouble of diagnosing it and reformat. It happened to me ONCE on Vista and another time on XP, so clearly it's not a bug they've fixed.

Honestly: Save the trouble by reformatting; You're not going to manage to fix it. Sorry.

UnrealClock · March 21, 2008, 11:56:56 PM

Quote from: Pedophile;1259902Happened to me.

Skip yourself the trouble of diagnosing it and reformat. It happened to me ONCE on Vista and another time on XP, so clearly it's not a bug they've fixed.

Honestly: Save the trouble by reformatting; You're not going to manage to fix it. Sorry.

Fuck, I just downloaded 50 gigabytes in roms. (of course it's all public domain shit)

buttplug · March 22, 2008, 12:13:27 AM

Quote from: UnrealClock;1259919Fuck, I just downloaded 50 gigabytes in roms. (of course it's all public domain shit)

WHERE.

UnrealClock · March 22, 2008, 12:20:31 AM

Quote from: Pappy Drewitt;1259922WHERE.

I'm a, "Underground Gamer" of sorts, but of course I can't "tell" you the website. That might break site rules.

MarshmallowClock · March 22, 2008, 12:32:10 AM

Quote from: UnrealClock;1259926I'm a, "Underground Gamer" of sorts, but of course I can't "tell" you the website. That might break site rules.

That's actually quite comical.

But yeah, reformat is the quickest/easiest cure. Without explorer.exe, Windows is actually (note I could've said virtually) useless. I spent days upon days trying to fix it but to no avail. It's not worth the time spent working on it.

UnrealClock · March 22, 2008, 12:33:17 AM

Quote from: Pedophile;1259935That's actually quite comical.

But yeah, reformat is the quickest/easiest cure. Without explorer.exe, Windows is actually (note I could've said virtually) useless. I spent days upon days trying to fix it but to no avail. It's not worth the time spent working on it.

I think I'm just going to sit it out, and not turn my computer off for the rest of time itself. It really isn't that bothersome to start the process manually.

RomanClock · March 22, 2008, 12:34:54 AM

Just put explorer.exe in the startup folder :\
Reformatting your comp is a bad idea.

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