I don't know if anyone can help or can offer any
suggestions as to why the following problems might be
happening.
1. I have a broadband connection but have found things
haven't been working anywhere near as efficiently over the
past week or so. It's most noticeable when I'm using
services like eBay or search engines where I have to type
something into the writeable field. Firstly there seems to
be a delay between what I type and what comes up and also
when I try and select the text with a mouse drag it
doesn't really react and if it does there's a very
noticeable delay. Also the pages seem to be taking their
time loading. I've run a thorough scandisk check as well
having an up to date virus protection prog (Norton) which
I've tried running manually as well as automatically.
Neither program reports any faults though, which is
leaving me none the wiser. Any suggestions what it could
be or how to solve it? I did run Spybot a while ago to get
rid of any annoying stuff like Gator, but I'm not sure if
this would have caused the problem. I also disabled a
program that suddenly appeared called diskman.exe via the
run > msconfig > Startup sequence.
2. My Epson color 740 just started printing in magenta
only - lovely colour but everything's mauve! I wonder if
it's a related problem or not? Can't be the cartidge as I
just replaced it.
Could a rogue virus have crept in somehow when I disabled
Norton to run a scandisk check? If so, why does it show up
and why isn't Norton fixing the problem?
Anyhow, any ideas/help would be much appreciated as I
don't want to spend the money on an engineer if it's
something fairly straightforward. Also, as it's a 450Mhz
Pentium 3, I don't want to waste money before I upgrade.
Thanks in advance,
Tobe