Windows - Think something is wrong here....

[Tom]

Hello,

When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes
(6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are Quicktime,
Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger, Windows
defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I
said they usually don't.

Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?


Cheers

[R. McCarty]

Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
When the console view opens, expand the System Log and
check the right-pane for red icons that denote errors. Clicking
each entry will bring up a details box that will contain a Error
ID # and a brief description. It sounds like you've got service
startup issues.

Norton products are well known for injecting "Quirks" and
performance issues on computers. There are other choices
for Security software that do not exhibit these problems.

"Tom" > wrote in message
...
> Hello,
>
> When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes
> (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are
> Quicktime,
> Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger,
> Windows
> defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I
> said they usually don't.
>
> Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?
>
>
> Cheers

[Tom]

What can I do if I do have these issues. And how come none of the other 6
computers in out house with Norton have had this issue?

Cheers


Tom

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
> When the console view opens, expand the System Log and
> check the right-pane for red icons that denote errors. Clicking
> each entry will bring up a details box that will contain a Error
> ID # and a brief description. It sounds like you've got service
> startup issues.
>
> Norton products are well known for injecting "Quirks" and
> performance issues on computers. There are other choices
> for Security software that do not exhibit these problems.
>
> "Tom" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes
> > (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are
> > Quicktime,
> > Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger,
> > Windows
> > defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I
> > said they usually don't.
> >
> > Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?
> >
> >
> > Cheers
>
>
>

[R. McCarty]

First, you'd have to determine what ( if any ) System Event entries
are present and which services are failing/stalling. Resolving them
may involve Live Updates or finding if System Service start modes
are set incorrectly. Every PC has different hardware/software
combinations that may or may not work well with Norton products.

Six PCs in a single household - that's a lot of computers to take
care of. Norton isn't always 100% problematic. What it is globally
- is a "Ball-&-Chain" on performance. Most Norton users become
blinded to how much of a drain on a PC the products inflict.

I've worked on literally hundreds of PCs with Norton problems.
Enough empirical data to convince me the programs themselves are
not a good choice. Just yesterday I had to rework a PC with the
new Norton 360. Luckily, the customer was within the period of
time he could return the product for a refund. We got his machine
setup with a "Free" solution that works fine and saved him $150.

"Tom" > wrote in message
...
> What can I do if I do have these issues. And how come none of the other 6
> computers in out house with Norton have had this issue?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Tom
>
> "R. McCarty" wrote:
>
>> Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
>> When the console view opens, expand the System Log and
>> check the right-pane for red icons that denote errors. Clicking
>> each entry will bring up a details box that will contain a Error
>> ID # and a brief description. It sounds like you've got service
>> startup issues.
>>
>> Norton products are well known for injecting "Quirks" and
>> performance issues on computers. There are other choices
>> for Security software that do not exhibit these problems.
>>
>> "Tom" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but
>> > sometimes
>> > (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are
>> > Quicktime,
>> > Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger,
>> > Windows
>> > defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but
>> > like I
>> > said they usually don't.
>> >
>> > Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>>
>>

[witan]

Tom wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes
> (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are Quicktime,
> Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger, Windows
> defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I
> said they usually don't.
>
> Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?
>
>
> Cheers



Are you sure the programs themselves do not load, or is it just the
systray icons? I have seen the latter happen once in a while on my
computer, running Win-XP Pro, SP2, up-to-date.Three icons that
sometimes fail are: Sound Volume, HP Deskjet Printer, and Copetnic
Desktop Search 2.
There is only one user account on my computer, and I usually put in
Hibernate rather than Turn Off. It saves a lot of time loading Windows.

[Peter Foldes]

One of the troubles out of many with Norton is that it does not show it's face right away. For me Norton is a Virus by itself. Remove Norton .. It is the best thing that you can do for your system. It creates problems like you have at present. I have been removing Norton for my clients and many times just by removing it their issues get rectified.

To remove Norton you will need their removal tool which is available at the Symantec site.
Norton is extremely hard to remove from any system. It is what I call bloatware.

http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm

--
Peter

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"Tom" > wrote in message ...
> What can I do if I do have these issues. And how come none of the other 6
> computers in out house with Norton have had this issue?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Tom
>
> "R. McCarty" wrote:
>
>> Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter]
>> When the console view opens, expand the System Log and
>> check the right-pane for red icons that denote errors. Clicking
>> each entry will bring up a details box that will contain a Error
>> ID # and a brief description. It sounds like you've got service
>> startup issues.
>>
>> Norton products are well known for injecting "Quirks" and
>> performance issues on computers. There are other choices
>> for Security software that do not exhibit these problems.
>>
>> "Tom" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > When I statup up sometimes everything starts and loads fine but sometimes
>> > (6/10 times) not everythign loads. The only things which load are
>> > Quicktime,
>> > Norton and the LAN symbol and in addition to that Yahoo! messenger,
>> > Windows
>> > defender and the little symbol for my graphics card hsould load but like I
>> > said they usually don't.
>> >
>> > Does anyone else think there is something fishy here?
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>>
>>

[HeyBub]

Peter Foldes wrote:
>
> To remove Norton you will need their removal tool which is available
> at the Symantec site.
> Norton is extremely hard to remove from any system. It is what I call
> bloatware.
>
> http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm
>

You also have to scour the registry of stuff even the sooper-dooper removal
tool won't get.

Even then, you can't be sure.

Purging a system of Norton is worse than removing a tattoo.