I tried to uninstall the USB driver for my Env3 cell phone. It simply will not run even through a registry cleaner. Any ideas? Maybe if I reinstall it, the uninstall will work.

TIA,

Honzai_10

MrMagoo wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 1:57pm:
I don't know - I just needed it for a brief period of time. In retrospect, this post is probably more about if my XP SP3 system is compromised.

I have recently observed strange behavior that occurred before I began using security apps and routers a few years ago. Not to cross post, but my Ghost v9 program had stopped working (now resolved only by installing v15 - see Ghost Board post).  An error message occured during Ghost v15 initial LiveUpdate; To summarize, it couldn't update by the usual manner because their server's IP address was in my HOSTS file; (it updated anyway.) I keep HOSTS locked for read only, and it's about 930KB, so I couldn't hunt down the entry as it is not alphabetically ordered. I reinstalled the MSMVP HOSTS via its batch file after LiveuPdate finished its workaround routine and auto-rebooted my system. I recently uninstalled AT&T self help tool so I could install their new one. During uninstall, my firewall alerted me to a connection breach. The program wouldn't uninstall under Control Panel but did under CCleaner. Hmmm...

A few months ago, I was in the Admin profile desktop and used "Run As" for a gaming program via my other user profile (also admin). At next reboot, my system had renamed itself from its original Admin account name (random numbers and letters to "DON/Administrator"). I built my own machine so its not OEM.) It appears that the accounts have merged but the one is not deleted - both profiles have their own entries in Documents and Settings folders.

So, I started poking around my system looking for problems in general and uninstalling unneeded apps, especially ones that run at startup despite settings to the contrary. I don't consider them to be malware as they come from legit companies. I don't use cracked SW and I review the lists of malware apps that are listed on well known security web sites. So, that's the deal. Any ideas? TIA,

Honzai_10

MrMagoo wrote on Jul 16^th, 2010 at 6:59pm:

True. I probably do need a reinstall. It's been a couple of years. I usually do it yearly. I'll do the Safe Mode scan and I've run BartPE before on W98. Any thing special about XP I should know? I appreciate the feedback. Can't afford to run around in panic mode.