[Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton

[jim/kb2tlb]

You might want to try the Microsoft Utilities Program...named
RegCleaner, it cleans your systems registry, and even gives you the option
to undo any chances it makes.(If any) Can be downloaded free, from zdnet.net
. File size is only 519 KB.

You may also want to try.. ending any task that are loaded, that are not
needed during your current session(s).


jim/kb2tlb

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----- Original Message -----
From: "R Goodspeed (W7DGX)" <rollyg@earthlink.net>
To: <ham-computers@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton


Hi Phil,

I'm running an 800 MHz Pentium and systemworks 2002. Ever since that
installation,
I have had multiple lockups and many programs have been stopped with the
illegal
instruction message. As a result, I cannot recommend Norton.

Maybe some of what I have learned will help. I am running windows 98 SE and
MS
Office 2000. I also have an HP 970CSE printer.

I had three continuous problems.

One was very slow response of the computer to everything. I solved that by
removing GoBack.

Two was a lockup every time I tried to print from MS word using the advanced
printer features like double sided printing or last page first. Printing
from
other programs like Internet explorer, Netscape browser, Netscape email,
outlook
express, and excel using the printer advanced features was not a problem.
What I
finally found was if I disabled Norton's CleanSweep the problem went away.

Third was the screen magnifier control panel would disappear, and the
windows
selection of active windows would not work. With the hint from the above
problem,
if I disabled CleanSweep before activating the screen magnifier the problem
does
not occur.

I have several intermittent problems left. All involve a list of about 12
programs
that generate an illegal instruction. I have also had problems saying I
don't have
enough disk space, or enough ram space. I have a 75 gig hard drive about 45%
 full,
and 256 Meg of ram.

My computer guru's recommend removing Norton systemworks by reformatting the
hard
drive. They feel you can't remove Norton's systemworks completely without
doing
the reformat.

I would appreciate help from anyone who has solved any of the above items.

Thanks for reading.

                Rolly W7DGX

Philip Atchley wrote:

> Hello all
> I'm running a 500MHz Intel P3 with 256MB RAM.  Recently I installed Norton
> Systemworks 2001 on it and with Liveupdate made sure I had all the updates
> to it.  I'm running Win98SE with all updates.
>
> Reason for switching from the AVG antivirus to Norton was that AVG didn't
> recognize the Eudora 5.1 Email client I switched to.
>
> My Problem:  Ever since I've switched to Norton I get intermittent
computer
> lockups on various programs.  Eudora is only one of them, it's also
> happened in windows Explorer and other programs.  Sometimes when this
> happens I can "recover" by using the old standby, Cont/Alt/del keys and
> shutting down the program that is locked up.  Other times the entire
> computer locks up and the only thing I can do is a hard "reset" with the
> button then watch that yellow line crawl across the screen 8^(   It
doesn't
> appear that any one program or "routine" will cause this problem, it's
> entirely random but a pain in the backside.  Never had this problem prior
> to installing Norton.
>
> Any ideas?  If I can't correct this problem I'll have to remove Norton and
> Eudora and go back to AVG/Outlook Express 6.0, something I'd prefer not to
do.
>
> 73 de Phil  KO6BB
>
> All outgoing Email Scanned By Norton AntiVirus.
>
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