Rick
Thu May 06 14:10:56 CDT 2004
General concensus here is that Norton sucks big-time vis-a-vis WinME.
If you're happy with it, though, go ahead.
Rick
Lost on the Naughty Laptop wrote:
> Okay...I will get to work!
> My subscription to Norton Internet Security just
> expired...I will renew it.
> Thank you, Heirloom.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Download CWShredder, free, from
>>
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>>Update it and run it.
>>
>>Then get Adaware6, also free, from www.lavasoft.de .
>
> Once again, update it
>
>>and run it.
>>
>>All this is with the assumption that you have a running
>
> antivirus with
>
>>up-to-date definitions.....if not........GET ONE! Also,
>
> you may want to
>
>>get and run McAfee's Stinger, also free.
>>
>>Oh yeah, when everything is cleaned up, check one or more
>
> of the following
>
>>sites on how to trim your startup axis......you would be
>
> amazed at how much
>
>>this will help your PC.
>>
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
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http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
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http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html
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http://ww2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
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http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
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http://www.greatis.com/regrun3appdatabase.htm
>> Heirloom, old and do it all
>
> sometimes maybe if I
>
>>can
>>
>>
>>"Lost on the Naughty Laptop"
>
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>
>>message news:8c1901c432d9$fb3a71e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>
>>>I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows ME.
>>>1) When I start up, the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
>
> will
>
>>>open, but not respond ( CTRL ALT DEL to get to task
>>>manager and see that it is not responding)
>>>2)I have about 20-25 different items listed in the task
>>>manager as running...however I have not opened any
>>>applications, I just turned the machine on. I have to
>>>close half of them to "unlock" the computer.
>>>3)My programs options from the start button are missing
>>>things like Accesories-defrag, etc...Where they went who
>>>knows!
>>>In order to perform scan disk, I had to go into safe
>
> mode
>
>>>and let it scan disk last night. I plan to scan disk on
>>>my d drive as well tonight and defrag both as well...in
>>>safe mode.
>>>What else should I do? Should I do a restore? Not sure
>>>what exactly this does, but I do not want to lose my
>>>existing software programs I have loaded or files...
>>>Any help would be appreciated...
>>>Lost on the Naughty Laptop
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>>.
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