I've got a feeling I'm gonna have to do a rebuild to fix this one but I thought I might as well throw it to y'all to see if anyone has any ideas....
My PC had been behaving a bit strangely of late - processes have not been ending for apps and they had to be killed before I could restart the app.
Also folders on the C drive were setting themselves to read on ly for no apparent reason and finally on Friday morning the system started logging itself out the second the login password was entered.
The system runs XP Pro SP1 with Norton Antivirus fully updated.
I did run what claimed to be a patch a few weeks ago but instead of doing what it said on the tin it ran a dos window for a second a 'appeared' to do nothing.
Booting into safe mode does not help as the system still logs itself out.
Any ideas - I'd rather not rebuild the system as it has a tonne of personal configs, codecs, bookmarks and settings I'd prefer not to lose but I can't think of any alternatives.
(Also means I have to restart HL2 - not so bad )
My PC had been behaving a bit strangely of late - processes have not been ending for apps and they had to be killed before I could restart the app.
Also folders on the C drive were setting themselves to read on ly for no apparent reason and finally on Friday morning the system started logging itself out the second the login password was entered.
The system runs XP Pro SP1 with Norton Antivirus fully updated.
I did run what claimed to be a patch a few weeks ago but instead of doing what it said on the tin it ran a dos window for a second a 'appeared' to do nothing.
Booting into safe mode does not help as the system still logs itself out.
Any ideas - I'd rather not rebuild the system as it has a tonne of personal configs, codecs, bookmarks and settings I'd prefer not to lose but I can't think of any alternatives.
(Also means I have to restart HL2 - not so bad )