Posted August 27, 200519 yr So I turned on my computer today and some slightly funky shit started happening. 1: The "select an account" menu appears, even though I only have one Windows user account on this box. I have never had this menu appear before, and definitely didn't set it to appear. 2: After booting up, my NVidia firewall tells me something has interfered with it and that it will now fix the problem for me. (I assume something disabled one of its services...) 3: I notice that the icon for the retarded XP SP2 "Security Center" is appearing in my Control Panel. I am pretty sure it wasn't there before (I disabled the thing's service right after installing Windows), but can't be positive. All that shit would be fixable and not that big a deal except that now, when I try to open certain "subsections" of the control panel, like the services monitor (services.msc) or the User Accounts manager, they crash or freeze with an Internet Explorer script error ("An error has occured in the script on this page.") The only things I've done recently are installing a TV tuner card and downloading Windows Media Player 10 (I was trying to fix a problem I've been having with WMP 9). My specs: Athlon 64 2500+ DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR XFX GeForce 6800 GT PCIE 2x 250GB Western Digital SATA2 Hard Drives (RAID 1) Win XP w/ SP2 Built In So, anyone have any ideas what the fuck is going on here? I'm gonna go try uninstalling WMP 10 and rolling back to an earlier restore point... Edit: Fuck, uninstalling WMP 10 didn't help, and System Restore crashes witht he error "The procedure entry point ?log@CLog@@QAAKHKGPADQAEKZZ could not be located in the dynamic link library aswCmnB.dll." Edit2: Aha, a Google search of that error turned up a single result, which claims that the problem is caused by Avast antivirus software, which I am using... Time to uninstall... Edit3: Yeah, it was the malicious script blocking feature of Avast Pro having a hissy fit. Everything's fixed now except for the user account menu appearing at bootup, for some reason. Should be an easy fix though. Edit4: Apparently my TV Tuner software helpfully installed the .NET framework without asking me, which helpfully created an account called "ASP.NET Machine Account" without asking me, which disabled the automatic logon feature (it only works when there is just one account on the computer).
