.exe kill my PC

[Sprafa]

very simply, a few Installshield .exes kill my PC by running in the background for 30 mins and eating away resources before opening.

In detail, for instance, I try to run the install .exe for Splinter Cell 3 demo and nothing pops up but the process Setup.exe starts eating resources like hell in the background.

Anyone ever heard of anything like this ?

 

[15357]

yes, my old computer.

 

[Sprafa]

meh, it's an Intel Pentium 4 2.5Ghz with 512 333RAM.

 

[15357]

hmm, check for viruses. my old computer was fine until i got 137 viruses and i had to burn it to disinfect and get a new one.

i'm serious.

 

[Sprafa]

It's clean.

 

[furiousV]

also ad-aware
and are you the administrator in your account? or got the priviliges?

 

[15357]

well then, do you have any drive software installed? (virtual cd drives,ect.)

that could be the cause.

or not..

i don't think that i can really help you.

 

[furiousV]

i sometimes used to get that, i just cant remember how i sorted it out.
i should drink less

 

[Sieg]

Do a virus cheak just to be sure,re-download and re-install the demo if nothing works.
Post some info on your hardware,might help us solve your problem.

 

[Sprafa]

Do a virus cheak just to be sure,re-download and re-install the demo if nothing works.
Post some info on your hardware,might help us solve your problem.

Done all that long ago. It's not just one thing.

it's a P4 2.5Ghz/512Ram333/80gb HD Seagate/Radeon 9700pro
Windows Task Manager tells me I'm eating 240mb of memory with normal background stuff.

 

[Dark8Master89]

Try microsofts new spyware tool! its great "Microsoft anti spyware beta"

 

[RamenFiend]

I had this same problem, so I created a new admin account and started using that to install.
Works fine now, give it a shot.

 

[Sprafa]

I had this same problem, so I created a new admin account and started using that to install.
Works fine now, give it a shot.

I'll try that, thanks

 

[DEATH eVADER]

very simply, a few Installshield .exes kill my PC by running in the background for 30 mins and eating away resources before opening.

In detail, for instance, I try to run the install .exe for Splinter Cell 3 demo and nothing pops up but the process Setup.exe starts eating resources like hell in the background.

Anyone ever heard of anything like this ?

I had a similar problem with the demo for pnadora tomorrow, it is possible that its checking if you haven't got any burning equipment (Referring to a PCZONE Q&A problem that was happening to a punter when installing). It took about 2 minutes before installation could continue, and yeah, when I wen't to Ctrl-Alt-Del my CPU was running at 100% capacity :O

 

[giant384]

i have a prog. running in the background that i cant get rid of unless u remove it from win32 but its kinda hard to because spyware or virus checkers do nothing

 

[bosox188]

I have the same problem, I'd had it for a very long time then reformatted and got a new mobo and stuff and it just never happened, but recently it has again. Some .exe files when I download them, not even open them, my computer instantly starts going very slowly, which is annoying because it could take 5 minutes to open the file, but once it's open it seems better, but really my computer doesn't go back to normal until I delete the .exe file. Or if I restart my computer with the file still there, it'll be ok upon restarting but if I go into the folder the file's in then it will start happening. I never did figure out why this happened.

 

[hneaz]

You could download this program called 'End It All'. it stops unnecessary background programs from running. caution thoug, u dunno wanna mess around with this program.