On Feb 24, 3
4 pm, John McCallum
<JohnMcCal...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> What is SidebySide and its relationship to WinXP SP3.I keep seeing this in
> event viewer I have looked on the Microfoft site and I can only find info
> relating to Server 2003 and as it tells me I do not have this OS on my
> computer. Any info greatly recieved.
Now you know it could be malware and how it is supposed to work.
You don't know if it a problem or not or what to do about it
Perform some scans for malicious software, then fix any remaining
issues:
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM):
http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS):
http://www.superantispyware.com/
They can be uninstalled later if desired.
When the scans run clean, reboot and see if you still have events
relating to SxS and if you want help interpreting them, post some
information about your system and the events of interest in the
following manner:
Click Start, Run and in the box enter:
msinfo32
Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select
All, Copy and then paste back here.
There will be some personal information (like System Name and User
Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just
delete from the pasted information.
Here is a method to post the specific information about individual
events.
To see the Event Viewer logs, click Start, Settings, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, Event Viewer.
A shortcut to Event Viewer is to click Start, Run and in the box
enter:
%SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc
Click OK to launch the Event Viewer.
The most interesting logs are usually the Application and System.
Some logs may be almost or completely empty.
Not every event is a problem, some are informational messages that
things are working okay and some are warnings.
No event should defy reasonable explanation.
Each event is sorted by Date and Time. Errors will have red Xs,
Warnings will have yellow !s. Information messages have white is.
Not every Error or Warning event means there is a serious issue. Some
are excusable at startup time when Windows is booting. Try to find
just the events at the date and time around your problem.
If you double click an event, it will open a Properties windows with
more information. On the right are black up and down arrow buttons to
scroll through the open events. The third button that looks like two
pages on top of each other is used to copy the event details to your
Windows clipboard.
When you find an interesting event that occurred around the time of
your issue, click the third button under the up and down arrows to
copy the details and then you can paste the details (right click,
Paste or CTRL-V) the detail text back here for analysis.
To get a fresh start on any Event Viewer log, you can choose to clear
the log (backing up the log is offered), then reproduce your issue,
then look at just the events around the time of your issue.
