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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:09 am Post subject: dumb computer question 1023258 |
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I just recently switched to Firefox from internet explorer, I did this to get rid of virus attacks. But as my luck has it Firefox is actually worse. 
I have a music program running in the background I did not put there. I can not find a window to close, or a pop up to click on... nothing.
How do I find what is running, and how do I nuke it's ass?
Wrong area but ... Help 
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macgyver655
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:19 am Post subject: Re: dumb computer question 1023258 |
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| dturco wrote: | I just recently switched to Firefox from internet explorer, I did this to get rid of virus attacks. But as my luck has it Firefox is actually worse.
I have a music program running in the background I did not put there. I can not find a window to close, or a pop up to click on... nothing.
How do I find what is running, and how do I nuke it's ass?
Wrong area but ... Help |
Maybe its your cell phone..... 
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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Ugggghh
Troublemaker 
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macgyver655
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I thought it was funny.
If you close out all your firefox pages is the music still there?
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greg_mitch
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:26 am Post subject: Re: dumb computer question 1023258 |
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| dturco wrote: | I just recently switched to Firefox from internet explorer, I did this to get rid of virus attacks. But as my luck has it Firefox is actually worse.
I have a music program running in the background I did not put there. I can not find a window to close, or a pop up to click on... nothing.
How do I find what is running, and how do I nuke it's ass?
Wrong area but ... Help |
A music program?!
Pull up task manager and look for programs running you didn't authorize.
Is there a chance that the website you are browsing has built-in audio or a soundtrack?
Give us a screen shot...
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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| macgyver655 wrote: |
I thought it was funny.
If you close out all your firefox pages is the music still there? |
Yes
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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:36 am Post subject: Re: dumb computer question 1023258 |
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| greg_mitch wrote: | | dturco wrote: | I just recently switched to Firefox from internet explorer, I did this to get rid of virus attacks. But as my luck has it Firefox is actually worse.
I have a music program running in the background I did not put there. I can not find a window to close, or a pop up to click on... nothing.
How do I find what is running, and how do I nuke it's ass?
Wrong area but ... Help |
A music program?!
Pull up task manager and look for programs running you didn't authorize.
Is there a chance that the website you are browsing has built-in audio or a soundtrack?
Give us a screen shot... |
Now it's a tv show audio only. Task bar is open at the bottom of the screen and no programs are there I didn't put there.
No, there no sound track on CURTPALME.COM is there?
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macgyver655
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:40 am Post subject: |
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This reminds me of when Gilligan hit his jaw and his mouth turned into a radio. Bang that thing a few times, lol.
Or maybe....... oh, never mind....
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macgyver655
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Is it Vista?
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dturco
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| macgyver655 wrote: | | Is it Vista? |
Yes it is Vista. and the phone was funny and so is Gilligan 
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macgyver655
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When you bring up task manager are you then selecting "show processes from all users"?
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dturco
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| macgyver655 wrote: | | When you bring up task manager are you then selecting "show processes from all users"? |
Uhhh I don't know, all I have is the bar at the bottom of the screen showing what's active. Is there a more in depth view than that?
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| dturco wrote: | | macgyver655 wrote: | | When you bring up task manager are you then selecting "show processes from all users"? |
Uhhh I don't know, all I have is the bar at the bottom of the screen showing what's active. Is there a more in depth view than that? |
Oh, I thought you knew what task manager was. I gotta go. Still in travel mode. Maybe Greg can talk you through it.
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greg_mitch
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| macgyver655 wrote: | | dturco wrote: | | macgyver655 wrote: | | When you bring up task manager are you then selecting "show processes from all users"? |
Uhhh I don't know, all I have is the bar at the bottom of the screen showing what's active. Is there a more in depth view than that? |
Oh, I thought you knew what task manager was. I gotta go. Still in travel mode. Maybe Greg can talk you through it. |
Oh Man  ...task manager is what you get when you right click on the task bar at the bottom and click "task manager".
It is considerably more in depth than the task bar.
Did you accidently open or have you ever set up Windows Media Center? I think that can be open with only an icon in the notification area (area near the clock on the lower right) and not show up on the task bar.
Or...standard response...restart your computer and then open firefox and surf to curtpalme.com/forum again and see if the sound comes back.
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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Greg I said it was a dumb computer question.  I opened the task bar and only sow firefox curtpalme running the background crap was still there. When I restart the background crap goes away but comes back a few minutes later, or all by itself if the computer is left on with the high speed cable on.
Then my computer froze and I had to restart to do anything
I open taskbar once I got back here and something is chewing through my ram it's eating 70% of available ram just being here.
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CasetheCorvetteman
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Upgrade it to windows 7 and forget about the issues....
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CZ Eddie
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RM -RF /
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Curt Palme
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I am DEFINITELY not the guy to answer this, but I've run Firefox on all computers with no issues, and websites open way faster than with IE.
All I can guess though is that somewhere somehow you had a virus already that kicked in when you installed Firefox?
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dturco
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| Curt Palme wrote: | I am DEFINITELY not the guy to answer this, but I've run Firefox on all computers with no issues, and websites open way faster than with IE.
All I can guess though is that somewhere somehow you had a virus already that kicked in when you installed Firefox? |
Curt,
Probably, I have rebooted several times since last night as the computer kept freezing up. At first Firefox was lightning fast then it got progressively slower. It seems after running a full scan Microsoft Security Essentials, I had many viruses even-though I have security essentials running all the time and have been doing quick scans and updates on auto a 2 am every morning.
For the computer tech dudes, With The taskbar open and the processes window open, the first two running are Bdk.exe using 141,252 and Bdl.exe using 42,353. Firefox is only using 36,121. If I stop these from running ram drops to 47% from 72% and The computer no longer sounds like a mad hornets nest,and everything works as expected and fast.
However as soon as I log off of Firefox and log back in the Bdk. & bdl reactivate and cause issues.
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greg_mitch
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I was just giving you a hard time...I could care less...
First of all...google chrome seems WAY faster than Firefox on all of my machines...give it a try. There are only a few remaining bugs in it.
Also, when I google bdk.exe it comes up a few times with Java so it sounds like it might be legit.
Are you getting HDD activity when that process is running? Could it be some sort of indexing software (google search? or virus scanners built-in)?
I haven't used firefox day in and day out for a few years so there is a chance it is just a setting you clicked that opened something you don't need.
Do me a favor...restart...install Google Chrome...live happy.
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