Satellite Pro A10: Error loading drivers and other things

hi.
I have just bought a spare A10 from ebay. I already have an A10 and its the business. On Powering up the new A10, I have a message bubble from microsoft saying that it was unable to load the drivers for the cd recording software, please update the drivers. If I click on the bubble it tells me to update real player, roxio or some other recording software.
As I haven't put any on and there was none on there when bought. Its not broken, Its just annoying. Also when I right click anywhere on the desktop, in the coloum that appears, i get a link to a adult site, how can i get rid of this?
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this and would be grateful if you could help.
Jack.

Hi Jack,
I suggest you check what is actually being started when you boot your new A10 using MSCONFIG. This will then let you stop those tasks which you do not want from being started up and should prevent your error message being displayed.
I also suggest you download and install a copy of AdAware from http://www.lavasoft.com (and possibly also SpyBot from http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html ) and do a full check of your new A10 to remove any nasties that may be lurking there.
It sounds as if the previous owner has removed some of the software that they had installed but have not fully cleaned up afterwards.
Finally, I personally use a freeware utility call CCleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com/ which is excellent at removing bits and pieces left over on my notebook. It needs to be treated with some caution because it is quite a powerful utility but it is very quick and thorough.
regards,

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