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May 21st 07, 12:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.software
Red Sunrise[_2_]
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ME Freezes upon startup...
Hey,
Yeah, since my last post I have perchaced Kaspersky AV. It running great and
my computer has not frozen since, so far that seems to have solved my problem.
"Mike M" wrote:
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 ?
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