windows system error
 

Lately I've been getting a little dialog pop up by the task tray saying,
"windows system error - duplicate name on network"
there is no network, this is my laptop, not connected to any lan
any ideas what may be causing that?

i had had an autoexec bat with a subst line but recently removed that (by
renaming to autoexec.bak and rem 'ing the subst line)
....don't know if that would be causing an error.

windows system error
 

"mp" wrote in message
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Lately I've been getting a little dialog pop up by the task tray saying,
"windows system error - duplicate name on network"
there is no network, this is my laptop, not connected to any lan
any ideas what may be causing that?

Probably a virus or other malware.

i had had an autoexec bat with a subst line but . . .

WindowsXP does not require AUTOEXEC.BAT (and cannot
use most of the DOS functions loaded by this DOS file.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

windows system error
 

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"mp" wrote in message
...

Lately I've been getting a little dialog pop up by the task tray saying,
"windows system error - duplicate name on network"
there is no network, this is my laptop, not connected to any lan
any ideas what may be causing that?

Probably a virus or other malware.

i had had an autoexec bat with a subst line but . . .

WindowsXP does not require AUTOEXEC.BAT (and cannot
use most of the DOS functions loaded by this DOS file.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


Thanks for the response, I have avast running but i suppose it could have
missed something.
ran malwarebytes anti malware - no malicious items detected.

any other thoughts?

thanks again,
mark