Re: Free software loads other stuff -- PCTECH

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Go get spy-bot (look it up in google, I never remember the site) and Ad-Aware (www.lavasoft.de). The combination is very effecitve in getting rid of most of this stuff.

And search google for each item you've listed - there are sites that list all the stuff you'll jave in the startup.

HTH
Vern

At 11:10 AM 5/15/2004, you wrote:

I'm running a Dell (don't buy one) 1.4 ghz with 256 meg ram running Windows XP Pro.

A couple of days ago my 4 year old son saw an aquarium program running in an office superstore. Rather than buy the program I downloaded 3 from Cnet and installed them. I quickly noticed they'd loaded lots of other stuff like pop-ups. 1 of them had an uninstall. I deleted the folders the programs were loaded into and ran Norton Windows Doctor to get rid of anything left behind. When I run MSCONFIG I notice I've still got stuff loading that wasn't there before such as:
eeuneqv
vbabsxs
inetmgr
QuikSearch.exe
li01f948.dll
iel2cde.dll
I think these were left behind by the freebies but how do I know for sure? I know I can find the files and delete them but won't Windows still try and load at startup? How do I get this stuff to not load (get it out of MSCONFIG)?

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