Taskbar freezing after connecting to internet

tazmayneo, can you check your event log (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer - System Log) to see if there's is a recent error logged there? Look for something new or a repetitive error

that is a SIS vga card. So that wasn't the problem. No harm done there...

Before I recommend anything drastic I do have another idea. Close your instant messenger programs one at a time and see if the problem remains. Aim, then check, close MSN and check again etc.

In fact, reboot and before going on line close one and then check and see if the problem goes away.

Most of the errors are coming from DCOM. One from atapi, one from serial, two from Service Control Manager.

And when I reboot, none of my Instant Messengers start up. I stopped doing it because of the problem.

Also, Yahoo and AIM seem to work fine when the taskbar is frozen, but MSN freezes.

Can you post the error messages here?

DCOM
Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM Server. The server is:
{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
The user is Unavailable/Unavailable, SID=Unavailable.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



DCOM got error "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. " attempting to start the service ccPwdSvc with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{DBA28A20-5CE1-4E8D-AD35-418B62269E54}

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


The server {520CCA63-51A5-11D3-9144-00104BA11C5E} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Service Control Manager
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Symantec Password Validation Service service to connect.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


The Diskeeper service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM Server. The server is:
{00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
The user is Unavailable/Unavailable, SID=Unavailable.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


atapi

The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

serial

While validating that \Device\Serial2 was really a serial port, the contents of the divisor latch register was identical to the interrupt enable and the receive registers. The device is assumed not to be a serial port and will be deleted.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Try ending this process and see if that helps:

MsgPlus.exe

Also, in the event viewer, look under application for anything that might relate.

If the event log doesn't turn up anything useful, then I would close all programs and enter this from start >Run:

sfc /scannow

Have your XP CD ready.

Alright for Applications, I've got Application Hang, Application Error, and Ci. There's a crapload, so if you want me to post the descriptions, it's going to take a while.

Edit- There's also VSS, EventSystem and MsiInstaller.



Do you want me to end that before I connect to the internet? 'Cause right now, the taskbar let loose. It's been letting loose at different times.

If most of them are related to the same applications, then just post a few.

did killing MsgPlus.exe help at all? You might try closing IE or whatever browser you are using and then kill that process and see if the problem persists,

Seems that we can get something from there, I think we'll wait for the posting.

I'll reboot, end MsgPlus.exe, connect to the internet, and see if it freezes. Then I'll paste some of the descriptions.

Sounds like a plan. I'm determined to get this resolved one way or the other.

ditto, same here

Alright. I rebooted, ended MsgPlus.exe, connected to the internet. I tried to open SlimBrowser, but it seemed like it froze. And then several seconds later, it let up but SBrowser didn't open. So I opened Task Manager and ended sbrowser.exe, and it froze again. So I opened Opera and came here. As I was typing up the second sentence, the taskbar unfroze(pretty fast compared to before lol). So, I don't know if it's MsgPlus.exe or what.

Application Error

1000

Faulting application prizesurfer.exe, version 1.0.5.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x000c0100.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Application Hang

1002

Hanging application sbrowser.exe, version 3.8.3.0, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Ci

4124

Content index on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci is corrupt. Please shutdown and restart the Indexing Service (cisvc).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

4126

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 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

EventSystem

4609

The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 800706BA from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

VSS

8193

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

MsiInstaller

11706

Product: Paint Shop Pro 7 ESD -- Error 1706.No valid source could be found for product Paint Shop Pro 7 ESD. The Windows Installer cannot continue.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I think this is related,
Content index on c:\system volume information\catalog.wci is corrupt. Please shutdown and restart the Indexing Service
let me post you some instructions