A couple of years ago I built a P4 machine running Windows XP for a friend who had never had a computer. Naturally she became addicted to it and not long ago bought an Apple notebook -- top of the line --so she could use a computer when traveling. She also paid QWest to install a wireless link at the machine I had built so she can log on from anywhere in the house. She wanted to have all of the files she had accumulated over the two years she was working with the PC I built for her on her notebook, so she paid the shop who sold her the Apple notebook to transfer everything on her old system to the 500 GB drive in her notebook.
She called this morning to say that when she tries to log off of the machine I built, that a warning box pops up saying another user is running and that closing down may lose their files etc. On bootup, a box appears saying Shutdown Apple -- where normally it would say Shutdown Windows -- and it reports 1 program is running.
Windows Task Manager however does not show a running program, nor does anything odd appear in the processes list of WTM. I have looked in the Program Files on the C drive and find nothing that could be associated with the problem.
Clearly the people at the Apple store did something when they copied her hard disk to the laptop -- perhaps creating a hidden partition containing software for the Apple, but so far I can't find it.
She expects me to "fix" the machine I built for her, and I would be glad to do so -- but want to stop short of a reformat and reinstall.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
She called this morning to say that when she tries to log off of the machine I built, that a warning box pops up saying another user is running and that closing down may lose their files etc. On bootup, a box appears saying Shutdown Apple -- where normally it would say Shutdown Windows -- and it reports 1 program is running.
Windows Task Manager however does not show a running program, nor does anything odd appear in the processes list of WTM. I have looked in the Program Files on the C drive and find nothing that could be associated with the problem.
Clearly the people at the Apple store did something when they copied her hard disk to the laptop -- perhaps creating a hidden partition containing software for the Apple, but so far I can't find it.
She expects me to "fix" the machine I built for her, and I would be glad to do so -- but want to stop short of a reformat and reinstall.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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