Device Manager and MSN/Internet Explorer

I have a strange thing started happening recently. When I
go into My Computer/Properties, when I click (and only
when I click) Device Manager, MSN 8 tries to launch.

What is the connection between Device Manager and MSN? Or
is it IE6 trying to launch MSN 8?

Is this an indicator of cross-linked files?

By the way, I can't get scandisk to complete. It comes
back after ten tries with a message yhat some software is
trying to write to the drive.

I have run Ad-Aware and SpyBot.

The internet setting "check for publisher's certificate revocation", if =

checked in Internet Options, may cause this connection attempt. Right=20=

click the IE desktop icon and select properties. Then go to last tab,=20=

Advanced, on the dialogue that pops up. Then scroll down to the Security=
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section. The first item, if it is checked, may be causing this connectio=
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attempt. There is no real problem, if you're aware this is causing the=20=

connection. But you could always uncheck it, if you don't want the=20
connection attempt.

You can always run scandisk from Safe Mode. I like Scandefrag, a program=
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from some smart people who've been known around these newsgroups. You ru=
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it from Windows and it will prompt to reboot and then run Scandisk and/o=
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Disk Defragmenter from before even the Windows Desktop is loaded. This I=
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like because no boot to Safe Mode, then reboot again to Normal. It does =

require a reboot, but only one, and scandisk and defragmenter will=20
probably run fine in this early Windows environment.
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

Original Message

On 07/20/2004, 6:22:39 PM, "Dave" =

wrote regarding Device Manager and MSN/Internet Explorer:


I have a strange thing started happening recently. When I
go into My Computer/Properties, when I click (and only
when I click) Device Manager, MSN 8 tries to launch.

What is the connection between Device Manager and MSN? Or
is it IE6 trying to launch MSN 8?

Is this an indicator of cross-linked files?

By the way, I can't get scandisk to complete. It comes
back after ten tries with a message yhat some software is
trying to write to the drive.

I have run Ad-Aware and SpyBot.