hi, just recently my computer went haywire. my tr2ap3 takes forever to start loading up windows, and after the welcome screen, it sits on my desktop wallpaper and refuses to load up explorer or anything else. i have my mouse cursor that i can move around, but there’s nothing to click. i can bring up the task manager by ctrl alt del and nothing else. any suggestions as to what i can do? my recovery disks are locked in storage 500 miles away and sony is trying to charge me $30 to purchase a recovery CD. any help would be welcomed.  :cry:

The problem may stem from Adware from “Adware Dynamic by Dynamic Destop Media” which requires the user to install the program first usually from the browser when visiting a website.

To see if you are infected with this Adware Use CTRL+ALT+DELETE to bring up the Task Manager, Select the Processes Tab and look through the list for sysu.exe.

Then Kill the Process and Close it and locate the folder C:\Program Files\dmm and delete it.

You will then have to edit the registry.

Please read all the information on this subject at the following URLs before you attempt to do this on your own:

http://www.computing.net/..../86240.html

http://www.computing.net/..../85915.html

http://forums.devshed.com/..../?perpage=15&pagenumber=2

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/..../adware.winpup.html

You can also boot into safe mode to see what kind of stuff is loading up at startup. I believe you simply hold down F5 still during bootup to get the choice.

Once inside safe mode, run MSCONFIG from the command line and look at the Startup section to see what kind of stuff is loading. It’s possible that you have some bad or suspicious stuff in there and need to disable it and remove it. You may actually want to disable as much stuff as you can and see if you can boot. This won’t solve the problem but may give you the ability to download some spyware checking software (like Ad-Aware AND Spybot - Search & Destroy) to check and clean your system.

I experience some similar problem when my TR comes out of Standby mode (or may be Hibernation)...the wallpaper is displayed and it just sits there (but I havent tried pressing ctrl+alt+del) ...never proceeds…however I have no such problems on normal boot.

well, the condition of my TR has gotten progressively worse. i’m thinking it was some sort of malicious virus attack. although i don’t recall downloading anything shady or opening any foreign email attachments, now my computer doesn’t load up windows in general. it flashes the vaio logo in the very beginning and then goes to a black screen, where it “thinks” for a while, eventually leading to an error message indicating some corrupt or missing windows file type. i have a registered, fully updated version of norton internet security, which leaves me wondering about what really happened. i’ve tried repairing windows installations and tried using the system’s recovery console but to no avail. i was thinking of taking out the hard drive to perhaps recover everything i lost, but i didn’t want to risk voiding the extended warranty. i’m guessing the only way to bring my TR back to life is to use the recovery disks, unfortunately at the cost of all my past year’s work and memories.  :cry: