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There is no loss of signal display on the monitor. All that happens is that the monitor has started showing the On Screen Display intermittently, obscuring what I am working on.

Yes, I have been known to run Task Manager, usually to kill non-responding programs. I do not have the faintest idea of how ro interpret the running processes.

I have not added any hardware or sofware lately, but I have updated Norton Internet Security and run Windows and Microsoft Update, also Adobe.

I am confused. I have another networked PC which has Norton Internet Security 2011 and also Windows Defender running in realtime mode with no apparent conflicts. Should I reinstall Windows Defender on the PC which the Symantec techie “cleaned up” and see if there is any noticeable effect? After all, I suppose I could always delete it again if problems occurred.

I think I will leave NPE.exe where it is or just delete it as I can run it from the internet if needed and on my other networked PC I also have a dozen of these similarly formatted files but no instance of NPE.exe so I doubt very much that it is involved. Thank you for your interest.

I neglected to mention the Symantec techie also deleted Windows Defender. Should I reinstall this along with the free Malwarebytes? Or does Windows Defender run in real time and is therefore a potential cause of slowdown of the PC?

Uninstalling and reinstalling seems to have corrected the problem.

I highlighted my recreated Archive-08-SENT folder then went to File/Import/Messages, chose OE 6, navigated to where my dbx files were and Presto! all is resolved. Thank you for your suggestion.

I cannot see any “mix” in these dates. As far as I can see they are all in the format d/MM/YYYY as set on my PC through Control Panel. You say there are 3 Temp folders. Two of them were created by me for personal reasons to hold particular files and have subsequently been deleted.

I replied to this before but it hasn’t appeared yet. Ran Malwarebytes previously and it found nothing. What do you mean the “Dates” from around the “Temp” folders down are all crazy (16-06-2011 etc.)… ??? What Temp folders and what is crazy about 16-06-2011?

I have not updated any drivers. WMV files are the only ones I have tried and I am using version 11. Should I uninstall and reinstall?

e051… is full of files, many of which are MUI files and seem to be Microsoft files related to Internet Explorer 8. ec29… is empty apart from a sub-folder called Update which is also empty. NPE.exe is Norton Power Eraser.

Root directory is the top-most direct28205-screen2ory on my PC, otherwise shown as C:. I have taken two screen shots as these strange files take up more than can be shown on the monitor at one time.28204-screen1

I have tried that but it gives no useful information. In the description window it merely repeats the file name.

No, I was not expecting anyone to “guess” what these files were. I just felt that the unusual format of the file names may have been recognised by someone.