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ME Freezes upon startup...
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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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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ME Freezes upon startup...
Red Sunrise wrote:
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. A very good choice and wise decision. I'm pleased to read that your system is repaying the favour and now behaving as it should and not freezing. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows |
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