Wizards go firward on their own

IvanV · Apr 1, 2008, 02:38 PM

To make a long story short (well, not really, if you want it short, read from the bold sentence onwards), this is the situation:

I've got 2 PCs in my home. One is running XP, the other was running dual boot with Vista and 2000 SP4. This morning, I installed XP over the 2000, installed the .Net framework and the drivers and tried to set up internet connection sharing with the fresh XP being used as the gateway (I turned on ICS, disabled Windows Firewall, installed Kerio Personal Firewall, told it to allow traffic comming from my home network and ticked "is running on internet gateway", told both PCs to obtain IP addresses automatically...). When that didn't work, I tried running Network Setup Wizard on the PC without the internet connection, and that's when the spooky stuff started!

The wizard would go from one step to another like someone was clicking "next" all the time (usually it would skip to the next step right away, and occasionally it would wait a few seconds so I could click "back")! I tried restarting the PC and unplugging the keyboard, but even with the keyboard unplugged it did the same! The other Control Panel wizards seem to be affected as well (Add New Hardware), but applications run normally. Now for the even worse part: I returned to the other machine (remember, freshly installed, nothing copied to it, although I did log in to the other machine when I installed the firewall to see if it was visible, but I didn't even access a partition, let alone run or copy something from it) and the same thing happened!

I repaired the Vista boot loader (XP install had broken it), ran a virus check (Avast Home 4.8, fully updated) and Chkdsk, everything seems to be fine. What do I do? (The only thing that occured to me was calling a priest.)

IvanV · Apr 1, 2008, 05:30 PM

I found the culprit, it was autoclk.exe. It was probably activated by ASUS USB modem installation, which definitely does some autoclicking and which I performed on the freshly installed PC this morning, and on the other one last night because I badly needed net on it.

Apr 1, 2008, 02:38 PM	#1
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,655 Rep Power: 280 System Specs	Wizards go firward on their own To make a long story short (well, not really, if you want it short, read from the bold sentence onwards), this is the situation: I've got 2 PCs in my home. One is running XP, the other was running dual boot with Vista and 2000 SP4. This morning, I installed XP over the 2000, installed the .Net framework and the drivers and tried to set up internet connection sharing with the fresh XP being used as the gateway (I turned on ICS, disabled Windows Firewall, installed Kerio Personal Firewall, told it to allow traffic comming from my home network and ticked "is running on internet gateway", told both PCs to obtain IP addresses automatically...). When that didn't work, I tried running Network Setup Wizard on the PC without the internet connection, and that's when the spooky stuff started! The wizard would go from one step to another like someone was clicking "next" all the time (usually it would skip to the next step right away, and occasionally it would wait a few seconds so I could click "back")! I tried restarting the PC and unplugging the keyboard, but even with the keyboard unplugged it did the same! The other Control Panel wizards seem to be affected as well (Add New Hardware), but applications run normally. Now for the even worse part: I returned to the other machine (remember, freshly installed, nothing copied to it, although I did log in to the other machine when I installed the firewall to see if it was visible, but I didn't even access a partition, let alone run or copy something from it) and the same thing happened! I repaired the Vista boot loader (XP install had broken it), ran a virus check (Avast Home 4.8, fully updated) and Chkdsk, everything seems to be fine. What do I do? (The only thing that occured to me was calling a priest.) __________________ Our Folding@home stats:

Apr 1, 2008, 05:30 PM	Thread Starter #2
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,655 Rep Power: 280 System Specs	I found the culprit, it was autoclk.exe. It was probably activated by ASUS USB modem installation, which definitely does some autoclicking and which I performed on the freshly installed PC this morning, and on the other one last night because I badly needed net on it. __________________ Our Folding@home stats: