Windows 7 acting strange...

[The Ghost]

tl;dr I have got Skype starting up on me, without being installed... Also performance decreases in Windows 7 since WX launch.

It was a normal day, me playing PC. I boot up my PC, get in a game, play 'till I'm bored, then I shut down.

Except this time something was different...

I boot, Windows 7 flag waves, yay, blue startup welcome scre- wait, nope, BLACK with only mouse cursor. This keeps up for a few seconds, say 25 seconds, and then hooray, blue startup welcome screen. I ignore it, only to see Skype on my taskbar, only about 0.2 seconds. Usually it wouldn't bother me, but it did. Why?

Because I don't have Skype installed...

I convince myself that it was something else, maybe...

I open a game, start playing like usual.

All of a sudden the PC alt-tabs out of the game, and I see that cheeky Skype icon in my taskbar again, for +-0.2 seconds again.

Then I knew I didn't see something else the first time.

I also checked my file system, no traces of Skype being installed...

With all this, starting when WX launched, my PC also got quite significantly slower, but only in Windows, though, not in games, but I should add that the games got a few lag spikes...

Don't tell me that it is just Windows getting slow like Windows always does, because it isn't. This literally started 29 July.



Anyway, if you can help/try to, feel free.

 

[Neko]

Crap ware. Run Malwarebytes, Spybot and whatever Antivirus you think is good.

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[Oj0]

Have you considered a console?

 

[The Ghost]

Crap ware. Run Malwarebytes, Spybot and whatever Antivirus you think is good.

Sent from my SM-G800F using Tapatalk

Will run Malwarebytes again, thanks.

 

[The Ghost]

Have you considered a console?

Are you ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ing kidding me?

Console is not for me because I've got no TV to play on.

And because View attachment 37273

 

[ninjah@<ker]

crapware bro, check if ur browser is not high jacked with PUPs aswell. u sure u have not installed anything unreliable or a file masquerading as something else off the net?

 

[The Ghost]

Meh, I think I'll just keep everything as is.

Malwarebites didn't get anything, so I don't know...

 

[Azurda]

Have you checked your startup and boot settings?

Start > Run > msconfig

 

[The Ghost]

Have you checked your startup and boot settings?

Start > Run > msconfig

It was my first stop. Nothing strange there...

 

[Azurda]

What's your update settings? Auto-Update or do you control it?

Edit:

You can try to check this out Win 7 - Uninstall Win10 Updates , I have heard of this fixing some pretty weird stuff.

 

[The Ghost]

What's your update settings? Auto-Update or do you control it?

I control it. Don't want Windows updating and getting me in trouble for overusing the internet...

16 year old living with parents problems...

 

[Azurda]

I control it. Don't want Windows updating and getting me in trouble for overusing the internet...

16 year old living with parents problems...

And when last did you update? What Anti-Virus are you using in conjunction with Malwarebytes? I recommend Avast or Avira. Just don't install two AV's at the same time..Malwarebytes+ Any AV should be good though.

Also, are you running Basic, Home, Pro?

Edit: Can you give me a list of startup items? What services are you running on auto startup?

 

[The Ghost]

And when last did you update? What Anti-Virus are you using in conjunction with Malwarebytes? I recommend Avast or Avira. Just don't install two AV's at the same time..Malwarebytes+ Any AV should be good though.

Also, are you running Basic, Home, Pro?

Edit: Can you give me a list of startup items? What services are you running on auto startup?

I use Microsoft security essentials. W7 Pro.

Nothing checked on startup.

On services I have the 2 chrome updates, Nvidia display driver service, Origin client service, PnkBstrA and Steam client service

 

[Azurda]

Maybe you should go to your update settings, check the date of the last update installed.

Reason for this is MS pushed updates to Win 7&8. At this stage I'm not totally convinced they wouldn't install them even if you opted to control update downloads.

 

[The Ghost]

Maybe you should go to your update settings, check the date of the last update installed.

Reason for this is MS pushed updates to Win 7&8. At this stage I'm not totally convinced they wouldn't install them even if you opted to control update downloads.

Random updates, yes. Skype download nope.

 

[Azurda]

Random updates, yes. Skype download nope.

MS pushed Skype as a desktop app to the Windows 7&8 versions. They own Skype.

Edit: Yes, although it doesn't show up as an installed program, traces may very well be installed. You should download a service manager, CCleaner to clean junk files (don't run the registry cleaner) and a 3rd party task manager.

 

[The Ghost]

MS pushed Skype as a desktop app to the Windows 7&8 versions. They own Skype.

Skype was not downloaded through Microsoft update.

 

[SpYkz]

Skype was not downloaded through Microsoft update.

Its bundled with Microsoft office now, maybe it got installed with office update?

 

[The Ghost]

Its bundled with Microsoft office now, maybe it got installed with office update?

I don't have Office...