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Okay. So I'm online, surfing the net, and I click a link. Internet Explorer freezes, so I close it. Well. I try to open back up IE, and the entire comp freezes. I restart the computer, and log back into my account. I try opening up IE, and it won't open. All I get is the little hourglass cursor for about ten seconds, and then it'll go back to the normal cursor but IE will not have opened. I try open my My Documents folder, My Computer, my Control Panel...all the same thing. Occasionally when I try opening something the whole comp will stall and then the screen will go blank, showing only my wallpaper, and then go back to how it was. Right now the only things I can get to open are MSN, AIM, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Wordpad I think my mom was tinkering with settings, but I can't even go back to change it because my account doesn't have admin capabilities (thank you, pain in the ass siblings logging into my account to sneak on the internet), and I don't know the password to the admin account. Any ideas as to what's going on, or will I just need to wait for my mom to change back whatever she messed up?

(and to post this...I had to use Winamp's minibrowser to access the internet )

well....open my computer and tru putting a link up in the address bar. just like you would in IE. it automatically switches to IE when accessing the page...but it might not block anymore...that is until you fix IE

Tried that, My Computer won't open I had to do that for a long time on our old computer because IE always crashed, so it was the first thing I tried.

sounds like spyware, I had a veeeeeeery similar problem, and only just fixed it...and a spyware killer is what fixed it

My spyware killer likes to freeze the computer...what do you use?

I use Spybot

That's the one I've got, but it always freezes while removing the spyware

While it's creating a system restore point?

No, it'll locate all the spyware and start removing it, but once it's almost done removing it it'll just freeze up

spy sweeper...download.com, then search for spy sweeper, it's the webroot 3 version

(props to eezy45 on that one )

Awesome, I'll check it out.

Damnit...I downloaded it and saved the exe file into my documents...forgetting that I can't get the bloody folder to open! Picture me banging my head on the keyboard right now...

EDIT -- tried installing it, only to discover that I need admin capabilities to install the program

I didn't need anything that was one of the few plug and play programs I ever downloaded

It won't let me install because my account doesn't have admin capabilities and I don't have the password to the admin account

And I tried running Spybot, did the same thing it always does...and everything's still being screwy.

She has a limited account on XP... which basically really screws you over

ah...y'see, there's only one account on my cpu, mine, that never even occured to me

is there a way you can get the admin thingers for your account

Nope, because the admin account is password protected and only my mom knows the password, and being as I'm not even supposed to be on right now...I don't see being able to get the password out of her

Go to your mom

Yeah, and then be grounded from the internet for all eternity? (or at least until I have a router so I can have internet on my comp?) I don't think so

Go to window...Open window....take computer....punt computer out window.

good advice...wouldn't help too much in this situation though because then I'd have to explain to my mom where her comp went

raccoons.

Raccoons threw her computer out the window. Yeah, I'm sure that'd work

I could possibly blame it on a sibling...hmm...

SS I'm sure there are programs which you can get to get admin privileges or atleast get the password

when in doubt clap your hands together....

why not? it worked for Tinker Bell...

*claps*

*waits*









Nothing happened. Damn.

Dont do a thing, let her go on it....and when she realises say 'its been working for me, you must have done something'

that's my plan of action as of right now!

Best thing to do

Always have protection

Any possibility of overheating? Do you have an AMD processor? Check temperatures (Motherboard and CPU) to be sure

Yeah, we do have AMD...but I'm pretty sure it's not that, I shut the computer down for a few hours just to make sure.