Help needed =)

[Nimbus]

Here is a description of the problem that i have:-

Yesterday, my roomate told me that he could not launch his dial up connection programme to connect to the internet. Therefore, i went over his room and had a look. I told me to do a AV scan and adaware scan. He did all that but the problem persist. However, i did notice that his local area network was not in the taskbar menu on the far right of the screen (windows default setting). I suspected that was the culprit but had no idea how do dealt with it. After that, he told me that he needed to use the internet so i lended him my PC.

This morning when i woke up and turned on my pc. I noticed that my 2 local area networks icon were not launched and sat on the taskbar. When i click on the dial up, it did not respond as well. I also noticed that Asus probe was not launched automaticly. I did all the routine check up like NAV scan and spybot scan to ensure that my PC was not infested by virus. After the scan, both programme reported that there were no virus and spywares. Then, i tried to restore my computer using the Windows Restoring programme but it refused to start as well!! Suddenly, just as i was sitting in front of the PC, stratching my head, the Asus probe, dial up programme, system restore, and the local area networks were launched.

Please tell me (1) How do i check whether my roomate had changed the Windows Setting (2) How do i solve this problem?

[greffov]

/me is no windows expert...

did you start the thing from cold? (not a hibernation wake up or something)

[RipperRoo]

Suddenly, just as i was sitting in front of the PC, stratching my head, the Asus probe, dial up programme, system restore, and the local area networks were launched.

at a guess i would say your using an asus A7V8X motherboard, this board has known issues with boot times when the network cable isnt connected - windows has half a million trys to connect the network b4 moving on, causing a MASSIVE slowdown in boot times (it wont get past the network icons and load ASUS probe for sometimes as long as five mins)

check all your network cables /connections to see if anythings unplugged or damaged replace as needed.
let us know what happens.

[Nimbus]

It's freaky. Guess what, everything has returns to normal now. As for my friend's PC, it was a virus. I killed the virus for him and he messed up his registry. I repaired it and everything is back to normal now. However, i am still curious about the bottleneck in my system. What causes it to slow down all of a sudden and return to normal again?

[Nimbus]

It's happening again!! Anyone has any idea to fix this problem?

[RipperRoo]

sounds to me like it could be a dodgy network cable