[Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton

Sat, 18 May 2002 20:50:23 -0400

Phil, 	

Many times Norton has a problem with certain video drivers, who knows why.
Perhaps they both want to use the same memory location at the same time. I would
suggest you check the known conflicts with your video card. There may be a path
or work around.	

Duane W8DBF	

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From: Philip Atchley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:28 PM

Hi Jim
I have that program on my computer but haven't run it since I installed
Norton as I was afraid it might conflict with something Norton was doing.
Before that I ran it regularly.

Also, I don't have a lot of tasks running at any given time.  Norton, Mixer,
Logitech Mouse and Matrox Quickdesk (For my special video card) are the only
things in the taskbar.

73 de Phil  KO6BB

> 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
>
> end
> *************************
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R Goodspeed (W7DGX)" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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