Taskbar freezing after connecting to internet

If it's opening the search thing and going to change preferences, don't bother typing up instructions. lol I disabled it earlier.

Edit- Just wanted to say that even when that was enabled, I was still having problems.

Yes, I was just looking at the same thing:

see: http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jsp?for ... age=171726

Yup Lol

What's this prizesurfer.exe? do you have this installed?

Not that I know of... that filename looks familiar though. I know I had that waaaaaaaaaay back, but deleted it.

I just got disconnected, and when it reconnected the taskbar froze. *Rolls eyes* So it ain't MsgPlus.exe. lol

Are you talking about the Indexing Service? If not enter this in Start > Run: services.msc

scroll down to indexing service and stop that. Then right click on it, select properties and set that to disabled. It's an unnecessary resource hog in any case.

I think maybe something is left, what's the date of this error?

//EDIT: ^ Follow Jim's instructions too, I was referinng to that in a later post

Yep, that's the one I'm talking about. I disabled that several hours ago. lol

What's the date of what error?

Sorry, lol

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.

This one

1/26/2004
2/1
2/5

Before May... I also had this a76f1a2v6x.exe which screwed up my computer bad. I couldn't even use the computer because a crapload of its processes would run and drive the CPU Usage up. But I doubt that has anything to do with it.

I ran across a thread on another forum that suggested NAV could be the culprit. It was several months old however so I'm doubtful that's the case.

Labrego pointed this thread out to me:
http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/windows-taskbar-freezes-again-t22061.html

IF nothing comes of these ideas or prizesurfer.exe I vote that you try this:

Close all programs, type this from Start > Run: sfc /scannow.

Have your XP CD ready to insert.

If the problem still persists, you might try a repair install:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;315341

Use method 2.

Or you may try to stop Norton's services, Norton is a memory hog, and you have only 128MB, try to stop their services and see what happen

I'll try that when I get back. It's now 11:28am, and I've been awake since 4pm yesterday trying to figure this thing out. I've got a headache and I really wanna start pulling my hair out. Thanks for all the help. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

Edit- And that thread that you last posted about changing the properties for the internet connection, that was the first thing I tried, and it didn't work. lol

If windows is using a lot of virtual memory, which it will if you only have 128MB, then that might account for the problem. I wished I'd noticed the the fact that you only had 128mb. I came to this thread late and didn't see that. Was focusing on the hijack this log. The extra resources required to run a browser and related programs could account for it.

In fact:

Seems like when you decrease the number of programs that are running the problem decreases. I'm assuming you were able to use slimbrowser before without problem. Have you started using more programs simultaneously just prior to this problem? Also, see if the hard drive is being accessed while the taskbar is frozen.

I'm going to take a break and grab a snack. Good luck with this.

128MB is not enough to run NAV, I noticed that too when I ran across another forum thread saying NAV eats too much memory. And your problem seems more like a delayed response from the system than a complete freezing.

Hey, why don't you invite me?? LOL