Ok, Don. I just did a Scan Disk, and defrag, which I do every other week, I
also did this too -- I Right Clicked on My Computer -- clicked on
Properties, when that window came up, on the right about mid way down, I clicked on
Disk Clean Up. Another window comes up, then I clicked on the tab that says
More Options. Down at the bottom, there is says System Restore, then I
clicked on Clean Up, which says "you can free more disk space by removing all but
the most recent restore point."
Earlier, I had done a system restore for the day before, so I clicked on
Clean Up and now, when I look in my Start Up, the ' ctfmon.exe ' was not checked
like it usually is when I open up my computer which is good news to me.
Now, I have heard from many sources that doing a system restore doe NOT take
up your memory, but I was told by Dell quite some time ago that it does, and
that's the reason I never wanted to do one. But when I created a restore
point some time ago, I noticed it dropped from 93% down to 89% free space.
Now, when I did this Clean Up, it booted me back up to the 93% again. Hurray!
Thanks for all your valuable input. I do appreciate it. Harriet
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Harriet wrote:
>it does keep appearing in my start up items, and
>I have to keep un-checking it each time.>>
That's usually a sign of spyware. As fast as you remove it, it replicates
itself. Some of them change names each time they replicate, so very
difficult to track down. Sometimes you have to use several different a-s
programs to get rid of them.
They usually live in System32, and often under the most innocuous names, or
sometimes under very important-sounding names, to deter you from deleting
them (eg "System.exe"). Whoever in their right mind would think of deleting
a file with that name!
Try a registry search of the numerous places in the registry which can
initiate startup files. Autoruns will show you where these are--some of
them are in pretty obscure places. The only problem with Autoruns is that
you'll likely suffer from overload of information. Your culprit will almost
certainly be in there somewhere----if you can identify it.
Don Penlington
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