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Avast and blank Desktop Buffalo 08-29-2005
Posted by Buffalo on August 29, 2005, 12:19 pm
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I uninstalled Norton Anti-Virus (Part of NSW2003 Pro) several days ago and
installed the free Home version of Avast.
Twice upon first boot up in the morning, I end up with a blue screen with no
Desktop or Taskbar. (the first time I rebooted around 5 times before I got to a
normal Desktop)
Never happened before the anti-virus change. May just be a co-incidence since
that problem didn't happen until a few days after I did the switch.
During the blank screen (blue) my USB optical mouse works just fine and when I
did a ctrl-alt-del to bring up the End Program box (Win98SE) there were no
programs listed.
This morning when I booted up the first time, the same thing happened except
that when I brought up the Close Program box, Avast was the only program listed
(rather than none). I did an End Task on it, waited a minute and then pressed
the reset button. It then booted up just fine.
(this morning I had my cable modem set to Standby during the first bootup try)
I had Avast set to notify me if an update was present and to ask permission to
install it.
Today, I set it to Manual.
I also use ZAPro,SpyWareBlaster,and Adaware.
Is it possible that Avast was trying to connect to the Internet (cable) to look
for an update before ZAPro got loaded and caused this hangup?
Since this problem has only happened two different mornings, it is not so easy
for me to isolate.
Any ideas or did anyone else have this happen to them?
Thanks




Posted by Buffalo on August 29, 2005, 2:34 pm
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I have that exe program somewhere and I used it once before, plus I did a little
more to the Registry and recorded the same.
Thanks for the advice that Avast may check for an update 'after' the Desktop is
fully loaded, and not before.




Posted by What's in a Name? on August 29, 2005, 9:11 pm
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> I have that exe program somewhere and I used it once before, plus
> I did a little more to the Registry and recorded the same.
> Thanks for the advice that Avast may check for an update 'after'
> the Desktop is fully loaded, and not before.
>
>

Just a note-you may want to manually delete all "symantec" folders
and run a registry cleaner like RegSeeker.
-max

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Posted by Buffalo on August 29, 2005, 3:41 pm
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>
> > I have that exe program somewhere and I used it once before, plus
> > I did a little more to the Registry and recorded the same.
> > Thanks for the advice that Avast may check for an update 'after'
> > the Desktop is fully loaded, and not before.
> >
> >
>
> Just a note-you may want to manually delete all "symantec" folders
> and run a registry cleaner like RegSeeker.
> -max

I'm still using such Norton programs in NSW2003Pro as Ghost,and the Norton
Utilities (Speed Disk and Disk Docter).
PS:RegSeeker is one of my favorites. I just upgraded to version 1.45 build 0505.
It does find more than version 1.35 Beta build 1203.
Thanks




Posted by louise on August 31, 2005, 4:12 am
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(nospam)@nada.com.invalid> says...
>
> >
> > > I have that exe program somewhere and I used it once before, plus
> > > I did a little more to the Registry and recorded the same.
> > > Thanks for the advice that Avast may check for an update 'after'
> > > the Desktop is fully loaded, and not before.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Just a note-you may want to manually delete all "symantec" folders
> > and run a registry cleaner like RegSeeker.
> > -max
>
> I'm still using such Norton programs in NSW2003Pro as Ghost,and the Norton
> Utilities (Speed Disk and Disk Docter).
> PS:RegSeeker is one of my favorites. I just upgraded to version 1.45 build
0505.
> It does find more than version 1.35 Beta build 1203.
> Thanks
>
>
>
Just curious - I've been using JV16 for years and I "think" it does
a good job.

How does Regseeker compare to JV16?

TIA

Louise


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