Antivirus loads too slow

[roger]

Hello,
here's what happened: win xp crashed; the computer froze, alt+ctrl+del
didn't work, so I shut it off manually.
Since then, my AVG loads fully a minute and a half after the desktop
appears, and the LAN network icon doesn't appear.
Here's what I've done: uninstalled and reinstalled AVG, did a SR.
Turned LAN off and on from device manager. Nothing works.
My system: P4 2 GHz, 256 RAM, win xp pro.

TIA

[roger]

On Tue, 06 May 2003 11:20:04 -0500, roger
> wrote:

>Hello,
>here's what happened: win xp crashed; the computer froze, alt+ctrl+del
>didn't work, so I shut it off manually.
>Since then, my AVG loads fully a minute and a half after the desktop
>appears, and the LAN network icon doesn't appear.
>Here's what I've done: uninstalled and reinstalled AVG, did a SR.
>Turned LAN off and on from device manager. Nothing works.
>My system: P4 2 GHz, 256 RAM, win xp pro.
>
>TIA

Everything's back to normal. What happened was that the lights went
out, the computer shut down. When it rebooted AVG loaded as usual and
the LAN icon was there.
What gives?
Is xp such a fragile and unpredictable product that it takes a crash
to correct the deficiencies it suffered by another crash?

[johnf]

Hardly fragile - or unpredictable, XP fixed itself, didn't it? Better than
the BSOD!
I would say it was the AV software that couldn't handle the power failure
and stuffed things up nicely.

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johnf

> On Tue, 06 May 2003 11:20:04 -0500, roger
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> here's what happened: win xp crashed; the computer froze,
>> alt+ctrl+del didn't work, so I shut it off manually.
>> Since then, my AVG loads fully a minute and a half after the desktop
>> appears, and the LAN network icon doesn't appear.
>> Here's what I've done: uninstalled and reinstalled AVG, did a SR.
>> Turned LAN off and on from device manager. Nothing works.
>> My system: P4 2 GHz, 256 RAM, win xp pro.
>>
>> TIA
>
> Everything's back to normal. What happened was that the lights went
> out, the computer shut down. When it rebooted AVG loaded as usual and
> the LAN icon was there.
> What gives?
> Is xp such a fragile and unpredictable product that it takes a crash
> to correct the deficiencies it suffered by another crash?