>If you go to the Program Files directory and if you know the name(s) of shareware programs recently installed (even if they are not in the Program Files directory), do they provide a uninstall program. Not all uninstall programs are listed by the add/remove options in the control panel, but it is a good place to start.


Been there, done that. I see nothing there, and no suspcious programs in the root of the drive either. My guess is that it installed some B.S. crap in the windows/system directory or something. There HAS to be a way to find out what is causing this!! grrrrrr... I'm tempted to just format the damn hard drive is pissing me off so much. Plus it's now causing the machine to hard-crash to the point where I gotta turn the f----ing power off because one of these web-sites that it jumps to occasionaly has a problem and it locksup the whole machine. Damn!