Continuously displays now docking status screen - and I have to task manager to stop it from displaying - how do i make it go away

If you're speaking of the docked Printer monitor icon in the quick launch, you can open the task manager and force close the Brother Printer Monitor. All that does is monitor the current status of the device at all times and isn't needed on the task bar.

That your PC is busy, the display has an offset of somewhere aroung 5 ms for your display. You won't even see more than just a slight blur even in quick movements. Anything above that orgiginates in the computer.

You might have set a bigger resolution for a new monitor, thus increasing the workload for your graphics adapter.

Example:
For a 1024 x 768 resolution, the PC must compute 786,432 pixels. Your display (1366 x 768 pixels) has about 30% more pixels to compute. (for an HD display that number increases to two and a half times as many)

Test:
(presuming, you run windows) start the task manager (right klick the status bar, usually on the bottom of the screen), select task manager and then the tab "performance", where you can see how busy your CPU is and whatamount of ram / swap is used.

Resolution:
Reduce your resolution, get a better graphics adapter, upgrade CPU / ram, decrease background programmes.

A white blank screen? That sounds like the virus changed your display settings. Click Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to the task manager. Press and hold the Ctrl key plus the Alt Key then hit the Del key. When the task manager opens up Click File at the upper left corner of the window then select New Task RUN. When the create New Task Window opens type: explorer.exe and hit OK. See if it starts populating your desktop icons and shows the start menu and task bar. If so, the virus changed your settings.

To change your display background click Start/Control Panel and look for Display or Appearance and Personalization. When it opens select the Desktop tab and change the desktop background. Hopefully the white will go away.

You may have to get into Safe Mode to do the above if the virus disabled the Task Manager.

A white blank screen? That sounds like the virus changed your display settings. Click Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to the task manager. Press and hold the Ctrl key plus the Alt Key then hit the Del key. When the task manager opens up Click File at the upper left corner of the window then select New Task RUN. When the create New Task Window opens type: explorer.exe and hit OK. See if it starts populating your desktop icons and shows the start menu and task bar. If so, the virus changed your settings.

To change your display background click Start/Control Panel and look for Display or Appearance and Personalization. When it opens select the Desktop tab and change the desktop background. Hopefully the white will go away.

You may have to get into Safe Mode to do the above if the virus disabled the Task Manager.

reformat hard drive to accept clean install of windows xp

set bios to boot from CD only after format.

if it doesnt work then...replace hard drive.

smss.exe is the process that manages sessions in Windows Computer. This is the session manager subsystem, which is responsible for starting the user session. This process is initiated by the main system thread and is responsible for various activities, including launching the Winlogon and Win32 (Csrss.exe) processes, and setting system variables. After it has launched these processes, it waits for either Winlogon or Csrss to end. If this happens normally, the system shuts down; if it happens unexpectedly, smss.exe causes the system to stop responding (hang).

In this case, I suggest that you start the "smss.exe" process manually from the Task Manager. You can press the "Ctrl+Shift+Esc" together to display the Task Manger window. Then, click on the Applications tab then the "new task" tab located at the bottom. In the New task dialog box, please type "smss.exe" and click OK.

However, you can also perform System Restore to restore the Windows System files to the time when it operated normally. Performing System restore will not delete any saved data however, all the installed programs after the selected restored point will be unistalled and require to reinstall them.

You may have an infection.
Anyways...this is what you should do to regain control.
When you get to the black screen and the mouse pointer, press Ctrl+Alt+Del
The next screen will ask you what do you want to do...
Select Task Management....(one of the last if not the last option)
You'll get the Task Manager Windows.
Go to the Processes tab
On the File menu choose New Task (Run), and type: explorer.exe
Wait a little bit, and your desktop should come up.
Once there, run an antivirus antyspyware, anti adware etc, to get rid of the problem.
Once you KNOW you're clean and back in track, I recommend you to look into www.labellpcsolutions.com.
They have a product called Pc Guard, that protect your computer from all this problems effectively.

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Press alt+ctrl+del key alltogether....you will get the task manager..on the top of task manager you will find the file option..click...on the dropdown menu select New Task...Type explorer.exe in new task and click ok...you will get back your desktop icons

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