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Problems on my computer
I have many problems on my computer and I am not sure what is causing them. My main problem is McAfee Virus Scanner. Ever since I got that program and I have been updating the lastest virus info and virus engine. I use to leave my Virus Scan engine on. (It looks like a V in a shield on the taskbar)
I let it start up no more because it freezes my computer like 75% of the time and it freezes on safe mode! Can you believe that! So thats when I found it was my Mcafee Virus scanner. So I email McAfee and all they could say is sorry to me, they can't do anything about. I was wondering if anyone else have this problem.
The next problem is that I never get a clean restart most of the time. Usually when I want to restart my computer it shows some VxD error and the blue screen of death. And it happens when I startup my computer. I think is it because I have only 1 gig left in my hard drive? I do defrag and run scandisk most of the time.
Please give some information on how to solve these problems or tell me some tips to make your computer error/crash free.
I let it start up no more because it freezes my computer like 75% of the time and it freezes on safe mode! Can you believe that! So thats when I found it was my Mcafee Virus scanner. So I email McAfee and all they could say is sorry to me, they can't do anything about. I was wondering if anyone else have this problem.
The next problem is that I never get a clean restart most of the time. Usually when I want to restart my computer it shows some VxD error and the blue screen of death. And it happens when I startup my computer. I think is it because I have only 1 gig left in my hard drive? I do defrag and run scandisk most of the time.
Please give some information on how to solve these problems or tell me some tips to make your computer error/crash free.
CityNightOwl
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Posted January 17th, 2001 18:00
Ragnarok,
I've had problem with McAfee as well, but only when I upgrade to McAfee Office 2000. Dell suggested and I confirmed that the McAfee Virus Shield, not the Virus Scan, where causing "out of range error messages". I still keep the Virus Shield running, but have disabled the Virus Scan. Both had been running at the same time. I am looking into downloading the free Innoculate Virus Scan Program. Innoculate is used by my Gozilla Program and works great there. Don't know if it is upgradeable. A tech at work told me that the only way to completely remove McAfee is to reformat your hard drive. He was cursing away, doing just that on a colleague's computer. He said McAfee is the best, Norton is not as good. I asked about Dr. Solomon but he had never heard of it (VERY strange). I've used Cheyenne's Innoculate previously at school and it was really simple to use. I didn't realize that it (or some version of Innoculate) was free. May want to look into it. I suspect that I am going to have to reformat anyway for other reasons.
CityNightOwl
Dell Dimension XPS D333
djml
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Posted January 16th, 2001 10:00
Dave & Disgusted