What is this strange window in Terminal at startup?

A window titled "Launchpad alias - edited" keeps appearing at startup. The window is from the program "Terminal" and appears to be written in code or characters unknown to me. Is this evidence of a serious problem? How do I fix or get rid of this?

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Hello all.
I'd never really noticed this, but I saw a rather unusual file format in the Open dialog box and was wondering why it appeared as it did. It appears as follows from the file/open dialog box:
To be completely transparent, I'd originally posted this image on my twitter feed to @illustrator. Since then I have been in communication with Scott but the advice has been to reinstall Illustrator. If this had happened on one machine, I'd be inclined to agree that this may do something, but since discovering this unusual format, i've since seen it on six macs running OS 10.9.5 and illustrator version 18.1.0 OR 18.1.1
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What's this strange computer on my network?

I have 2 macs on my APX network. The network is password protected and the network is 'closed' (SSID disabled) and the firewall is on at both computers but not the router. Recently a new computer has shown up in my sidebar under "Shared". It only shows up on the MacBook and not the MacPro. I can't connect to this computer. There's been no overt damage to my systems (yet!) but I don't like not knowing what's up.
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jeffspc88mx wrote:
I do have a Tivo, a Wii, and two iphones - and they show up in AirPort Utility as such, but this thing Finder is calling a 'PC server" and its name is Tammy-qewpo2314jads (not its real name). I can't connect to it or delete it.
yes, as i said, this sometimes happens with devices like a printer or Wii on the network. you can try unplugging them all and see if it goes away.
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I agree the closed network gives peace of mind - but still....

What does this mean windows power shell has stopped working

error message window powershell has stopped working

It can mean many things. PowerShell may be damaged, something may have caused a crash, or malware could be involved.
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us
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What does this strange NullPointerException mean?

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Mac user OS 10.6.8 Firefox 6.0.2. Click the Firefox icon in dock, program does not open new window. Type cmd+N to open new window, cmd+T to open new tab or cmd+L to enter URL, nothing happens. What causes this, and what can be done?

It's strange. The problem apparently resolved itself after I ran TechTool on it. When I clicked on Firefox last night, I had no problem opening a window. Thanks for your help. (As to your previous post, the focus was on Firefox and neither the speed keys nor the menu bar would open a window or tab of allow me to enter a URL to open a window. Strange!)

EVENT 36888, Schannel A fatal alert was generated and sent to the remote endpoint. This may result in termination of the connection. The TLS protocol defined fatal error code is 43. The Windows SChannel error state is 252.

I keep losing my network connection for a few seconds at a time. Not a big deal unless I just spent time filling in a form and have to redo it.
Getting:
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Critical Kernel-power event ID 41 is used appear after PC restarts or randomly restarts with error
BugcheckCode listed or a cold reboot. Do you get BSOD and some dump files?
Default location is %SystemRoot%\Minidump. You can upload it to skydrive, then paste link here.
How to use Skydrive
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-SkyDrive
Kernel-PnP event ID 219: A Plug and Play device driver on your system is failing to load due to a device driver or device malfunction, you can unplug any external devices (except mouse and keyboard, but please keep the latest drivers), and
check device status in device manager, please also keep the all latest driver update of your PC.
And for error 36888, I found a similar thread, please refer to this link
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4c5430f5-43f6-41b4-97d3-03cfb3efa70b/schannel-error-event-id-36888-is-there-a-way-to-identify-what-causes-schannel-to-log-error?forum=winserverDS
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The loading bar at the bottom of my browser has disappeared and I want to reinstall or reactivate it. How do I do this please and what is this bar called? I use the lastest version of Firefox 3.6.3 and Windows XP.

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