The next time this happens, chose Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, see if you get an error message that tells you what file it's talking about. Maybe that will give us a clue.
Okay, when the popup window came up I chose chrome and got the following message:
This webpage is not found.
No webpage was found for the web address: file:///C:/Program
Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found.
In IE, it didn't do anything. It just opened as normal.
In Firefox:
File not found
Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Program.
??? Well then it's a good thing I didn't uninstall ETDCtrl like it was suggested.
un-installing this is not the same as disabling the mouse\touchpad.
when you uninstall software that's used to control/make work hardware like a mousepad,
on a reboot windows will just find/install and use recommended software for that hardware so the pad would still work,
but when you disable the hardware your telling windows you don't need to use that hardware any more so stop it working altogether for me.
personally yes i think i'd un-install ETDCtrl and maybe go into the device manager and uninstall the touchpad drivers and do a reboot, let windows find and install drivers for the touchpad and see if the problem now goes away.
Ahh. I see. Thanks for the clarification. I will give that a shot.
??? Well then it's a good thing I didn't uninstall ETDCtrl like it was suggested.
un-installing this is not the same as disabling the mouse\touchpad.
when you uninstall software that's used to control/make work hardware like a mousepad,
on a reboot windows will just find/install and use recommended software for that hardware so the pad would still work,
but when you disable the hardware your telling windows you don't need to use that hardware any more so stop it working altogether for me.
personally yes i think i'd un-install ETDCtrl and maybe go into the device manager and uninstall the touchpad drivers and do a reboot, let windows find and install drivers for the touchpad and see if the problem now goes away.
Okay, I've uninstalled it as suggested and it seems to be working. I haven't had the ETDCtrl button come up in two days.
Yeah it does seem this way. I will try the clean boot.
Also, when the window popped up to ask me how I wanted to open this file, I accidentally clicked for it to open in a program I have called celtx. It's a screenwriting program. It couldn't open it of course but it did give the option to view the error. I've attached it below:
think he's fixed problem 2 but still has problem 1.
did a google search for winntx86 and came up with a lot of symantec netbackup hits, only thing i saw in his earlier post that seemed to have anything to do with syncing/backups was
SugarSync Manager SugarSync, Inc. 12/3/2012 1.9.83.104095
so am wondering if this maybe where the problem is and everytime he opens a web browser it tries to sync with any devices in the back ground but is failing because of incompatibility/corruption.
think i might uninstall it and see if the problem goes away. just guess work on my part tho and i can't say i've ever heard of sugarsync. shrugs.
saying that, norton is also looking good as the problem in my opinion especially if he can't disable it from starting up.
Yes, uninstall Norton. Download Microsoft Security Essentials first and have it handy to install if you intend to leave Norton off your computer.
Basically, uninstall Norton then reboot and see if the popup is gone or not. If yes, then you can either install MSE or download and reinstall the latest Norton, your choice. If the popup still occurs then you still have the same two choices, MSE or Norton.
No HKCU:Run Berokyo C:\Program Files (x86)\Berokyo\Berokyo.exe
I've uninstalled this program, so I'm not sure why it is still in the start-up menu.
No HKCU:Run GoogleChromeAutoLaunch_721577D41E77D440C916E2687EBA0267 Google Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" –no-startup-window
No HKCU:Run MobileDocuments Apple Inc. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Internet Services\ubd.exe
No HKCU:Run SpiderOak SpiderOak C:\Program Files (x86)\SpiderOak\SpiderOak.exe –windows_startup No HKCU:Run SugarSync SugarSync, Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\SugarSync\SugarSyncManager.exe" -startInTray -usedelay=true
Re-installed since this was not causing the issue. It is an automatic back-up service kind of like backblaze.
No HKCU:Run ViPad Lee-Soft.com C:\Program Files (x86)\ViPad\ViPad.exe
No HKCU:Run ViUpdater Lee-Soft.com C:\Program Files (x86)\ViUpdater\ViUpdater.exe
Yes HKLM:Run 00TCrdMain TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\FlashCards\TCrdMain.exe
No HKLM:Run AppleSyncNotifier Apple Inc. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleSyncNotifier.exe
No HKLM:Run APSDaemon Apple Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe"
No HKLM:Run BCSSync Microsoft Corporation "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\BCSSync.exe" /DelayServices No HKLM:Run djon C:\Program Files (x86)\djon\djon.exe
This has been uninstialled also.
No HKLM:Run Everything "C:\Program Files (x86)\Everything\Everything.exe" -startup
No HKLM:Run IntelliPoint Microsoft Corporation "c:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe"
No HKLM:Run iTunesHelper Apple Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
No HKLM:Run QuickTime Task Apple Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
Yes HKLM:Run SmartAudio Conexant systems, Inc. C:\Program Files\CONEXANT\SAII\SAIICpl.exe /t
Yes HKLM:Run SmartFaceVWatcher TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\SmartFaceV\SmartFaceVWatcher.exe
Yes HKLM:Run SmoothView TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\SmoothView\SmoothView.exe
No HKLM:Run StartCCC Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\CLIStart.exe" MSRun
No HKLM:Run SunJavaUpdateSched Sun Microsystems, Inc. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
No HKLM:Run SynTPEnh Synaptics, Inc. C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
No HKLM:Run ToshibaServiceStation TOSHIBA Corporation "C:\Program Files (x86)\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Service Station\ToshibaServiceStation.exe" /hide:60
No HKLM:Run TosNC TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\Toshiba\BulletinBoard\TosNcCore.exe
No HKLM:Run TosReelTimeMonitor TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\ReelTime\TosReelTimeMonitor.exe
No HKLM:Run TosSENotify TOSHIBA Corporation C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA HDD SSD Alert\TosWaitSrv.exe
No HKLM:Run TosVolRegulator TOSHIBA Corporation C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TosVolRegulator\TosVolRegulator.exe
Yes HKLM:Run TPwrMain TOSHIBA Corporation %ProgramFiles%\TOSHIBA\Power Saver\TPwrMain.EXE
No Startup Common Audible Download Manager.lnk Audible, Inc. C:\PROGRA~2\Audible\Bin\AUDIBL~1.EXE /Startup No Startup Common Bitmeter2.lnk C:\Program Files (x86)\Codebox\BitMeter\BitMeter2.exe
Also uninstalled.
No Startup Common McAfee Security Scan Plus.lnk McAfee, Inc. C:\Program Files (x86)\McAfee Security Scan\3.0.285\SSScheduler.exe
No Startup Common Microsoft Office.lnk Microsoft Corporation C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office10\OSA.EXE
No Startup User Dropbox.lnk Dropbox, Inc. C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe
No Startup User MyLifeOrganized.lnk mylifeorganized.net C:\Program Files (x86)\MyLifeOrganized.net\MLO\mlo.exe
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