Chris
December 11th 03, 10:26 PM
You might try a few totally free spyware utilities.
I'm not a re seller and do charity work helping people
with pc difficulties often.
I hate macafee & nortons because they hog alot of
resources and usually cause more trouble than they solve.
I've been using AVG Anti virus from www.Grisoft.com for
about 5 years. I've mnaged to help about 200 people I
helped over the years to it. Best of all it is free with
all of the updates regularly.
SpyBot S&D (http://security.kolla.de/) may find if you
have some sort of odd trojan marketing tracker on your
system causing this trouble.
I found gamechannel installer slowed me down alot.
Adaware 5 (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) is another great
tool for eliminating marketing spyware.
All are very easy to use without intruding on your system.
>-----Original Message-----
>All of a sudden, my PC now takes about 5 min. to boot and
>not all of the startup programs (Norton Anti-virus for
>ex) don't start. If I try to do a system restore, it
>goes through the motions of restoring but after rebooting
>it says it couldn't restore to the restore point & no
>changes were made. However, the PC then proceeds to boot
>up normally.
>
>This sequence of events is consistant. Boot up from PC
>in off condition takes at least 5 min and isn't complete.
>Try System restore (to various restore points) and it
>reboots as it normally would using System restore but
>ends up saying it couldn't restore and then continues to
>boot normally.
>
>Any thoughts?
>.
>
I'm not a re seller and do charity work helping people
with pc difficulties often.
I hate macafee & nortons because they hog alot of
resources and usually cause more trouble than they solve.
I've been using AVG Anti virus from www.Grisoft.com for
about 5 years. I've mnaged to help about 200 people I
helped over the years to it. Best of all it is free with
all of the updates regularly.
SpyBot S&D (http://security.kolla.de/) may find if you
have some sort of odd trojan marketing tracker on your
system causing this trouble.
I found gamechannel installer slowed me down alot.
Adaware 5 (http://www.lavasoftusa.com) is another great
tool for eliminating marketing spyware.
All are very easy to use without intruding on your system.
>-----Original Message-----
>All of a sudden, my PC now takes about 5 min. to boot and
>not all of the startup programs (Norton Anti-virus for
>ex) don't start. If I try to do a system restore, it
>goes through the motions of restoring but after rebooting
>it says it couldn't restore to the restore point & no
>changes were made. However, the PC then proceeds to boot
>up normally.
>
>This sequence of events is consistant. Boot up from PC
>in off condition takes at least 5 min and isn't complete.
>Try System restore (to various restore points) and it
>reboots as it normally would using System restore but
>ends up saying it couldn't restore and then continues to
>boot normally.
>
>Any thoughts?
>.
>