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by jdamico

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User's PC running Win 98 has been shutting down on it's own at precisely 12 noon. I have checked the power management settings, nothing obvious there that would cause this. This happens regardless of what applications are running (today it was Outlook & Excel) or if nothing is running at all. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

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by crscth

Reformatt, someone could of hacked the win 98 and edited one of your files to restart at 12 noon. Reformatt is the easy way to go.

by jdamico

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The user decided that he would rather live w/ the problem that have to reformat. Thanks!

by fred07

Hi

First go to Semantec Website and do a virus scan

Second go to Adaware Web site and see if you have any of those

I use spywarenuker to scan and rid my pc of Trojans, Worms and other forms of maleware

I also use Norton antivirus 2003 and will soon be updating to 2004 as my year is almost up

fred

by johnmaxy

first run your virus program. get spybot (shareware, free to use), and clean up your pc.
probably the problem is solved.

by jdamico

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I used Adaware. Also found a program called "powerreg scheduler" that was executing at startup. Used msconfig to stop it. Hopefully problem is solved! Thanks!

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