Can someone please give me some advice on problems I'm encountering, and I appologise if I've posted this in the wrong section. At the moment I'm encountering a couple of problems that I just can't seem to be able to solve.
I've just downloaded " PerfectDisk 8.0 defregger " halfway through the operation my Pc is shutting down, and when it comes back on I get a window that says " The system has recovered from a serious error " send error report or don't send.
My other problem is when I open one of my folders I get another window open that says " Windows Eplorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience "

Do you think these two problems are linked? and if so what should I do next?

I've scanned my system with :

Avast Home Edition.
Xoftspy.
Superantispyware.
Drwebcurit.
Vundofix.
CWShredder.
Unhackme.
HijackThis (nothing unusual in the logfile)

I've cleaned out all my temp and junk files yet the problem still persists.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I've also included snapshots of the errors.

Thank you

hello system, and welcome to pchf.....first, do you know how to read hjt logs adequately? sometimes malware can hide itself pretty well.....second, let's do this:

go to start > run > eventvwr.msc. That will open an explorer like window with applications, security, and system in the left pane. Click on system and see if there are any exclamation points near to when it last froze; if so, double click on the item in the right pane, click on the two pieces of paper to copy it to your clipboard, and then come back here and paste the results. Then do the same for the applications folder; look for any exclamation marks that are near in time to when your pc is freezing.

thanks,

v

Yes I'm pretty comfortable with reading HJT logfiles, I've done a course on the GeeksToGo Forum a while ago as a Malware removal assister. I got to stage 5 out of the 6 practice logs, but then my son fell ill so I had to prioritise and subsequently dropped out. But I don't mind posting the logfile to you if that helps as I may be a bit rusty in detecting

There are quite a few exclamations icons, also some error icons, here goes starting with the exclamations:

System

1st Report

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4226
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 12:46:55
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 54 00 ......T.
0008: 00 00 00 00 82 10 00 80 ....‚..€
0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

2nd Report

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4226
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 12:18:02
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 54 00 ......T.
0008: 00 00 00 00 82 10 00 80 ....‚..€
0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

There are more exclamation icons for today but they are of a simular nature.

Here's the Error icon reports:

1st Error

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 13:05:46
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 804f28da, parameter3 f0fa0930, parameter4 00000000.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 38 1000008
0020: 65 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d e Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 30 eters c0
0030: 30 30 30 30 30 35 2c 20 000005,
0038: 38 30 34 66 32 38 64 61 804f28da
0040: 2c 20 66 30 66 61 30 39 , f0fa09
0048: 33 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

2nd Error

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 13:04:49
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
The MSCamSvc service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.

There are more but again they are of a simular nature.


Applications starting with the exclamation icons


1st Application report

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Ci
Event Category: CI Service
Event ID: 4132
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 13:12:07
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
1 inconsistencies were detected in PropertyStore during recovery of catalog c:\system volume information\catalog.wci.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.

Error icon reports

1st error report

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ci
Event Category: CI Service
Event ID: 4126
Date: 11/04/2007
Time: 13:12:07
User: N/A
Computer: POWERTRON
Description:
Cleaning up corrupt content index metadata on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci. Index will be automatically restored by refiltering all documents.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events And Errors Message Center: Basic Search.

Again there are quite a few of these icons, both errors and exclamations, so I've pasted one of each.

I'm a bit out of touch as to Pc repair, so any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Hi System_Overload.

Have you run a chkdisk? I'd like to know if it generates errors...and of course fixes them.

Also, does this only happen when you run the defragmentor?

If so try the trial version of O&O Defrag and see if that makes a difference.

Also, maybe a list of running services might help too, bring up the command line under the Start Menu (Start>Run) and type "services.msc" and click on the actions menu and select export. Export the list as a text file and post it as an attachment.

Hi double_a_ron.

Sorry for the delay in replying, the suns shining and I just couldn't keep myself indoors

I've already run Chkdsk, it was one of the first things I did, no errors were found.

Yes, this only happens when I run PerfectDisk. I have run other defragmentors without any problems. I thought that given the other error I'm recieving the two problems maybe linked. But looking back they can't be linked as the " Windows Eplorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience " was present before I downloaded PerfectDisk.

I've attatched the Text List, not quite sure if it's what you were asking for as it looks a bit random to me.

Thanks for the help, most appreciated.

Attached Files

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Actually it was exactly what i wanted...it's just not as nicely formatted as most exported files Windows creates. I'll try and muck throught it though.

Have the Windows Explorer error and the Windows has recovered from a serious error message been happening concurrently. The first error can happen at any time to anyone really but it's the second we really want to be concerned about right now. If the two started happening at the same time then they are most likely linked. If one started happening a little bit after the other then there is the possibility that one is causing the other.