Malware / Adware ? [Solved]

No mouse connected when I press the alt tab turn off computer screen comes up.

Try rebooting and see what happens. When you say the mouse makes a beeping noise when it moves, are you saying it's the mousepad and not a "plugged-in" mouse that makes the noise?

I believe the sound was coming from under the mouse touchpad, however I also have a external keyboard which I am shy to say once unpluged cleared the problem, there may have been something spilt on it ( the other half tells me) the screen is now stable and all working o.k. now I have unplugged and removed the keyboard. Tuxedo

Hi Tuxedo

To be honest I don't think we need to check for malware. The fact that you have re-installed XP means your computer should be OK.

I would really like to recover some of my old data but not sure if that is possible

You could have done that if you had asked for help before re-installing but as you did a clean install I would say that it is unlikely that it's recoverable.

It might be worth starting a topic in our Windows forum to ask the experts and also get help if you have other hardware problems.

Please let me know if we are OK to close this.

Satchfan

Satchfan, Thanks for your help, yes I am aware I should have made a copy of the data but with the frustration of the issues I acted before I thought. I think it is time to close the topic, and thanks again for your help. Tuxedo

You're welcome.

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