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Nothing will survive across a format unless it's on your install disks. That isn't likely so I'd look elsewhere first.
Which version of Windows?
If you don't think you've browsed enough to invite problems then you may just be seeing Messenger windows. What do they look like? Edit: Guess you already said they look like system windows. That definitely sounds like Messenger.
Just in case, run "services.msc". Scroll down to "Messenger", make sure it's stopped and set to disabled.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
Last edited by cyrnel; 06-01-2005 at 02:23 PM..
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