Spyware or Virus?

jmedina

jmedina

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My Laptop's time is starting to become wrong again. I also noticed sometimes when I shut it down it lags. I'm guessing it is either spyware or a virus. I was also reading somewhere that it could be Windows Media Player. Because, This has just started happening since I have installed the latest version of Windows Media Player.
 
If you are running XP and installed WMP 11 go into the add/remove Windows components and uncheck the WMP item and download WMP 10. It works far better in XP. The problem there however is more likely another program still remaining active when you go to shutdown.

Two things to try are looking over the processes in the task manager to look over for any unknowns and disabling some items in the startup group found in the msconfig utility. That will keep the program from autoloading with Windows at startup once you know which one it is.
 
Usually when you see a lag when shutting down and sometimes a popu for ending something now you know that one program still has a piece hanging up on you. When in the processes section look at those that have your user name not SYSTEM seen on the right column to id what program or ? still running.

The msconfig is easy enough to use once you know which program needs to be disabled there. You can always go back in to re-enabled something later if needed. For essentials on a video or sound card then you may need to remove and reinstall the software/drivers to see that corrected.
 
I've never heard of or seen any version of WMP hang on shutdown unless someone went to shutdown while it was running. But printer softwares and other things are too well known for seeing things linger. This has more to do with startup items then simply being an older system. You can see this type of problem on a new build just as well. It's a software not hardware problem there.
 
Yeah. Once it popped up a window and it said it failed to shut down. I don't remember the program though. But I remember I googled it and found out that it was Windows Media Player, Which was strange because I didn't even have it open.
How should I dispose and replace WMP 11 with 10 again?
 
That's where you need to do three things. First you go into the add/remove Windows components section of the add/remove programs found in the Control Panel. You simply remove the check mark next to the media player item and exit. After that you simply remove the registry key and folder for it if WMP 10 doesn't go on right away. And simply don't answer for the update prompt that will from time to time since that will put 11 back on again.
 
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