[mrsD]

I just had one of these...the first time ever.

What is this about? It says device manager?

I wasn't doing anything. I had just downloaded my Private message box, to clean it up as I was almost to my maximum, I saved them to 2 files, and left the computer. I was still logged on here.

Bingo when I came back ...I had a blue screen... says it is a serious error? I turned off, like it directed, came back and wrote down all the codes...but dang if I know what it all means. I sent the report with my doings, and sent that off as requested.

Was this too much on the clipboard? Is that what crashed me?
I have 1 gig of RAM. Does this mean that this computer is giving up the ghost? I have a fairly new hard drive in it.

Codes are BCP1-4 with lots of numbers...

Was this a clipboard issue? Is there a way to clean it out?
My graphics program asks me to clear out the clipboard often.
But I have never seen a post or remark anywhere about that in Windows XP. That is all I can think of.

Hubby says it happens for no reason sometimes...like a Windows hiccup? Is that true? I've never had one before.

[Jomar]

Mine has done it out of blue a few times, maybe 1 or 2 times a year - i just restart & do some general scan & clean up any oddball stuff, and all is fine .

I think sometimes things just get scrambled as your dh says and the reboot gets it back in order.


I don't even pay attention to any codes unless it becomes a frequent problem.

[mrsD]

What is a general scan? Something other than viruses? We do 4 every weekend, and have had nothing on them since my trojan attack.

I sent it to my son, and he had a dire warning... probably an imminent failure coming! I'll have to call him for details.

[Jomar]

no mainly just the malware / AV scan or a registry cleaner

I use Ccleaner or Glary utilities to weed out any weird stuff they are both pretty good for overall tune up/cleaning etc

[mrsD]

We are exploring some solutions I'll let you know what
we find out...

Here is one of our helpers:

[Jomar]

On the Gary Utilities & Ccleaner (& other Reg cleaners) , there seems to be some that use them and some say do not use them.

So just to show pros & cons..here is some info links about them -
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=...9141da4f416ce8

[mrsD]

We downloaded Trend Micro Housecall and ran that. It found:

Java Rexec.B and we removed it. This is called severe on the net??? (and 3 minor cookies which we removed too). One site said this trojan is pretty old. ??

Trend Micro always finds stuff others don't. I have done them twice in the past.

He also downloaded the free Ccleaner...but it scared him when he saw the warnings all the time about "this forever removes this and that". It found a boatload of cookies and if one does not know what is going on or understand them all, then one might kill everything one does on the net...like banking, like here? He removed all the stuff it found in the recycle bin tho.

Any thoughts on the cookie issue?

[Jomar]

You can always uncheck things in the settings or the little boxes if you don't want to risk removing certain things.
I pretty much use it as it is and I uncheck anything related to my security files/cookies.

also -
on the options tab you can make sure any important site cookies are ignored - so they are left alone

It will ask you if you want to do a save/back up before cleaning/making changes to the registry settings.