Hi, I'm a new member and really appreciate some help as I am now desperate!!

Hi to everyone who uses and helps on Major Geeks. Fantastic website, and fantastic forums. Your help in all matters are priceless!!
I'm not sure if I am posting in the right forum but I am getting desperate and the wife is starting to nag me.
Problem: No matter what window I have open, whether it is a web page or a word document, it keeps jumping into the background. If I am typing, like now, the open page will go into the background and I have to keep clicking the mouse to get it back to the forefront. This has now become very depressing as my wife is trying to do her essays for her history degree and she's having so many problems because of this. I don't know if it is a software, hardware or computer setting fault, or if I have some sort of virus????? If anybody could help, I would be so grateful. It may be something very trivial, but when you are typing and look up to see that everything you've just typed is not on the screen, it freaks you out!!!!
Please help!! JoeClark. (Desperate and Needy)

 

You don't happen to have an MS powertoy named TweakUI installed do you?

 

Greetings and welcome to Majorgeeks! Hopefully, someone here will be able to help ye out.

First thing I'd do, if you think you have a virus, is to follow these instructions:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407 : READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
then:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=38752 : NO HIJACK THIS LOG FILES BEFORE READING THIS: HJT Tutorial & LOG File Posting

Then post in : http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35 : Post in this thread to be SURE you have no malware located on your machine.

 

Is this a laptop btw? Do you have an infra red port on this?

 

Thanks for your replies theefool and plastidust. It was very much appreciated. I took a logical view of all that I had done to the laptop and in light of all the free downloads I had downloaded for tweaking XP and for safety/ security, I had probably made some bad choices. I decided that because all of my important stuff is on my master computer, I just backed up my documents and used my rescue disc. A bit drastic but the wife's essay's are more important at the moment!!!!
Thanks to you both.
Have you got any recommendations for security issues??? Spyware, Malware Viruses and Trojans i.e. best course of action/ defense??
JoeClark

 

Check http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=20 for MG Must Have FREE downloads for all sorts of good stuff to make your PC work a lot better. Bazza