strange system behaviour

[cybermonk]

i wonder if anyone has had any issues with running google desktop search on a winxp sp2 box. The application keepes shutting down and restarting again. After scanning my box with avast last nite, i woke up this morning to find my system locked down( didnt have adminsitrative rights anymore and couldnt start any programs) and googledesktop was complaining about an invalid dll image. I couldnt even shut down or hibernate normally. After powering down manually, everything came back to normal. Does anyone have any idea what went down? thx

[pkm]

I've never used Google desktop but, you could initially check Event Manager in your Administrative Tools for the period that you were away. (I'm presuming you left your system on overnight...)

[nihil]

Please tell us what is in your log files

[cybermonk]

im not on that machine right now but once i get on ill dump the event logs and investigate. And yes it was on all nite. I ran disk defrag and avast antivirus scan. This machine is a standalone box so it couldnt have been any new virus infection( i actually dont use it much) since the last time i used it.