Sticky Computer Problem:
- From: Robert <magineeer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 13 May 2007 00:03:13 -0700
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer, running with XP Home Edition
and am connected to the Internet via DSL. It usually is fairly smooth
running and fast enough for my needs. A few days ago when I was about
to turn it off there was an alert saying to turn it off to in order to
download updates. I had seen this before so I wasn't alarmed. However,
the next day when I turned on my computer the desk top loaded as
normal but Internet Explorer doesn't function at all and my other
applications are slowed down considerably. I have over 25 gigs of free
space on my hard drive so it's not a matter of storage and I haven't
added anything new and there's only (1) game on it, Jedi Knight, Jedi
Academy.
It acts as if there's a virus. I have Norton Antivirus, A- Squared,
and Spybot. I have run all three and only Spybot came back
with anything saying my Microsoft security was disabled which I
believe is normal since I'm running Norton. It won't let me do a
System Restore either no matter what date I choose.
I finally tried disabling the Norton Antivirus and it finally let me
online but the computer is still 'not right'. It doesn't let me see
my email yet loads other pages as normal and if I try and do anything
the application hangs up. It's as though my system is in a locked loop
and cannot access the
Internet as I normally did.
It shows that I have an Internet connection but whenever I enable
Norton I get an alert which says that IExplorer is attempting to logon
to the Internet (recommended): and
shows proxy settings detected and just hangs there,..... whenever I
click ok the alert it comes right
back.
As I stated at the beginning, my system was running fine before all
this started to happen.
I'm not saying I don't believe those of you regarding your comments
and Norton products but I'm just pointing out there wasn't a conflict
with them on my system before this. The system was fast and easy to
use and hardly any wait time at all. I tried turning off my Automatic
Windows update and I got an error message from Norton. Does anyone
know of a way around it, or just let it stay that way?
Going on the principle that my computer software 'seized up' in mid
download, even though the computer gave the message to turn it off to
download updates and 'something' obviously happened. I remembered that
I had bookmarked the site and was able to gain access in that way.
Once in, I checked my computer and it showed no updates available, I
then ran all available software updates, then checked again and found
quite a few updates to download. I then went back to look for XP
updates to download because I remembered seeing (8) of them but when I
saw Internet Explorer 7 download I clicked it instead thinking it
would bring 'back up to speed'. It validated me and it seemed to
download everything fine, however near the end I thought I saw an
error message about not being able to download something and another
message flashed by with numbers, and not gaining access. It just
happened so fast. Then the computer did a self re-start and came back
up with a prompt for restart but it's as slow as ever. Then after
being online for a few minutes it gave me a message that my updates
were almost finished, so I figured that's why it was so slow. Again it
shut itself down and then prompted me to start-up again. However it's
still sluggish and I still has the problem of Norton not allowing me
to go to sites otherwise I get a alert message, so I have to disabled
Norton. Should I re-run the Explorer download? Also, is it possible
to hook up one computer to another? Don't you have to have separate
DSL lines etc coming into the room to power and connect to the
Internet? Where does the cable usually connect into? Any suggestions
or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Robert
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