Ok Tech-monkies

[Stephen]

This black box is popping up like crazy these days. If you right click a picture, mp3, video file, anything really. It just seems to randomly pop up. I looked around online and everyone acts like its a Win XP issue. But...heh I am on Vista. Any ideas how I can get rid of it? I tried having my nortons antivirus block it, but it still pops up. It does not seem to be doing anything harmful...it is just annoying as heck.


I am running Windows Vista on a Compaq Presario PC. Model SR5250NX

[chibiphonebooth]

the problem is you are using a PC.

[Stephen]

God I seriously hate how Mac fans act. It's a computer choice, not a freaken social club.

[mechana2015]

This is what i found regarding errors in the program that that is referencing:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165
http://www.file.net/process/verclsid.exe.html

[Stephen]

What I don't understand, is why on a new computer with Vista....am I dealing with an XP issue from 2006?

[mechana2015]

What I don't understand, is why on a new computer with Vista....am I dealing with an XP issue from 2006?

Possibly a new update broke the program?

[Stephen]

While I am still very curious as to the issue, I have found a nice fix. I loaded up Sunbelt Personal Firewall, and used its block feature. No popups now at all. Everything is running wonderful. And all the world rejoiced. Or at least I did.

[Bobtheduck]

While I am still very curious as to the issue, I have found a nice fix. I loaded up Sunbelt Personal Firewall, and used its block feature. No popups now at all. Everything is running wonderful. And all the world rejoiced. Or at least I did.

Maybe I read that wrong, but isn't this program used to see if you're running a legit form of windows? Blocking it means you won't be able to run normal system updates for Vista, or that's what I'm guessing... I could be completely wrong.

[Stephen]

Heh. I am almost 100% sure now it was one of the Vista updates that brought this on me. Maybe no more updates is a good thing? If at some point I need an important update I could shut down Sunbelt and let it go then set it back up.

[Warrior4Christ]

Did it still allow to do whatever you were doing with right-clicking the file?

[Jingo Jaden]

Tried going into the task manager. If you then go to processes you will probably find the program. I once had a problem like that and since it drove me crazy I ended up deleting the file. Now I can't tell if deleteing the file will cause any problems. I useualy back my computer up though just in case.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

While I am still very curious as to the issue, I have found a nice fix. I loaded up Sunbelt Personal Firewall, and used its block feature. No popups now at all. Everything is running wonderful. And all the world rejoiced. Or at least I did.

A popup blocker is blocking popups from the DOS prompt? o.o

[Stephen]

W4C yes after you X'd out of it, things would be normal till it would pop up again minutes later. Jaden, I could not edit or delete the program without being told I did not have permission. And Etoh, it's not a popup blocker....its a weird thing that makes any aplication get ok'd. I love it, I went around and ok'd all my normal programs...now anything new that comes along and tries to run if I don't ok it, it goes away. Huzzah.

[uc pseudonym]

While I try not to be an OS-elitist, Vista does have some serious problems. Like XP before it, it will probably require a few years and a couple of service packs before it is stable.

So if it was some kind of update that caused these errors, it wouldn't surprise me. It's probably a good idea to nix it for the time being and they'll probably fix this along with a bunch of other stuff in a major update later.