Is it about to give up the ghost?
Hi,
I'd apprecite some advice. I'm running a nearly new computer of, I believe, pretty good spec - Pentium 4 3GHz, 1024mb Ram and so on. It's been fault free until about 3 weeks ago when I did it's first Windows update. Thereafter things didn't seem right. It was slower to boot than usual and seemed to be processing at idle (if that makes sense?). On one occasion I tried to shut it down and was presented with the following:
CCAPP.EXE not responding
to which I clicked "end now" but nothing; no reponse. It froze so I shut it down by holding the master on/off in. It really didn't like that as when I came to reboot I was greeted by all sorts of messages about recovery from serious errors and lots of disk checking procedures and rectification.
I have Norton 2006 Internet Security installed and I think it has been letting nasty things through in spite of my keeping it up to date.
Does 361101032253584.exe mean anything to anyone? This thing "failed to load properly" and appeared in mycomputer/local disk. Norton didn't pick anything up yet every time I booted up I got this "fail to load" type message relating to this long number. Now don't shout at me but I just deleted the item from the local disk in the vain hope that it would solve the problem. I never saw the message at startup again but it was running in the processes section of windows task manager and was using quite a bit of processing capacity.
I decided a destructive recovery was in order and so did it. However things just don't seem right and I'm just not happy with the performance as it's not as before. I've done four recoveries now and it doesn't seem to help.
Have I broken it do you think or is there something I can do to resolve this? What are the merits of windows updates? Did they contribute to my problems?
Any thoughts much appreciated.
Thanks