Norton AV 2005 like all other versions is incompatible with Win Me and can
cause countless problems. Your PC would really benefit if you were to
move to a better AV application. Alternatives abound and include both
free and paid for versions including Avast (from Atwil), AVG (from
Grisoft), Panda, Trend, Computer Associates, NOD32 and Kaspersky. I
wouldn't recommend McAfee although this has improved.
--
Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows



Red Sunrise Red wrote:

Hello.

My problem with ME is a reoccuring one. Sometimes (not all the time),
while starting up, ill get a background colour, then before the start
bar loads, it freezes and just sits there with a blue background (my
background color... changes if i change background colour so nothing
significant about blue .. ) and a mouse / hourglass. It will stay
like this forever until I restart it, and occationally it will freeze
while running scandisk for the improper shutdown.

I know it is software related because i used to split my hard drive
with linux's kubuntu (which although nice didnt run what i wanted so
i removed it), and It never froze. So its ive kinda ruled out my
computer.

One theory I have heard is that norton antivirus 2005 may cause some
freezing, but id rather not remove my anti-virus just to find out
that thats not it and spend 2 hours redoing everything.

Any ideas as to why my computer is doing this or any confermations to
the Norton thing - along with a good antivirus / firewall to use in
place of it ?