Hi
I am running a home-constructed PC (started out life as a Dell, but i had to replace the motherboard and - well, one thing led to another).
Asus A8N-E running NVidia nForce4 with AMD processor
Windows XP professional
Zone Alarm security suite
It's been working fine for a couple of years with the odd hiccup but i transferred to Zone Alarm from McAfee about four months ago, and upgraded to IE7 - security and fire walls seem to be a big part of the problems i've had in the past so i thought i'd mention it.
last week i had the "application error with winlogon.exe" error on log on and I couldn't boot at all. I did a repair install from the XP disk which *Mostly* worked, but now I have no mouse. I am having to tab through the browswer fields to even post this message which is incredibly frustrating!
Odd symptoms:
* IE has rolled back to version 6 (I guess that might be a function of the repair install)
* In the device manager there is NO "mouse and other pointing devices" entry, let alone any mouse recorded under it
* In the control panel, the mouse hardware properties are completely blank (no way of updating driver or getting more inform,ation - selecting the buttons does nothing)
* In Regedit the particular registry key that Microsoft says I should be looking for (at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142405) which is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Class/Mouse doesn't even exist in the registry
* So I am thinking there's something at the BIOS level that's wrong m,eaning windows doesn't even know to look for the mouse, but most weirdly of all, when I reboot at hit "del" to enter the set up screen it won't let me - it just continues to load windows.
I have a bad feeling that there could be a virus involved with this - to access my work computer system remotely I have to switch off Zone Alarm, and I wonder whether something got under the radar. When I try to update Zone Alarm's virus scanner, it won't let me.
Any thoughts gratefully appreciated.
Cheers
Electric Ray
I am running a home-constructed PC (started out life as a Dell, but i had to replace the motherboard and - well, one thing led to another).
Asus A8N-E running NVidia nForce4 with AMD processor
Windows XP professional
Zone Alarm security suite
It's been working fine for a couple of years with the odd hiccup but i transferred to Zone Alarm from McAfee about four months ago, and upgraded to IE7 - security and fire walls seem to be a big part of the problems i've had in the past so i thought i'd mention it.
last week i had the "application error with winlogon.exe" error on log on and I couldn't boot at all. I did a repair install from the XP disk which *Mostly* worked, but now I have no mouse. I am having to tab through the browswer fields to even post this message which is incredibly frustrating!
Odd symptoms:
* IE has rolled back to version 6 (I guess that might be a function of the repair install)
* In the device manager there is NO "mouse and other pointing devices" entry, let alone any mouse recorded under it
* In the control panel, the mouse hardware properties are completely blank (no way of updating driver or getting more inform,ation - selecting the buttons does nothing)
* In Regedit the particular registry key that Microsoft says I should be looking for (at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142405) which is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Class/Mouse doesn't even exist in the registry
* So I am thinking there's something at the BIOS level that's wrong m,eaning windows doesn't even know to look for the mouse, but most weirdly of all, when I reboot at hit "del" to enter the set up screen it won't let me - it just continues to load windows.
I have a bad feeling that there could be a virus involved with this - to access my work computer system remotely I have to switch off Zone Alarm, and I wonder whether something got under the radar. When I try to update Zone Alarm's virus scanner, it won't let me.
Any thoughts gratefully appreciated.
Cheers
Electric Ray