The saga continues: More bad advice from Steverz
Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 8:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23824 messages posted)
I see you are continuing to provide bad advice. Your analogy is far off base - totally
backwards. And MSConfig can't touch the problems that Spbot and AdAware address.
Viruses and Spyware are not so prmitive as to be called up in MSConfig.
On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:47 am, Steverz wrote:
>I agree with the "'restore back to before you installed Norton."' But whatever you
>do, DON'T download Adware, Spyware or Spybot. Many Users on this XP site use thoughs
>applications and three-times more have serious problems with them. Fixing an OS
>problem with those applications is NOT proper troubleshooting. It's like buying
>a car with 50 options and have 20 fail, so you trade in and get a car with 100 options.
> What's wrong with this picture?
>
>If Restore Back doesn't help, then boot to the Options Menu and select Safe Mode
>again. This time click on your Start button, select Run and type in MSCONFIG. To
>see what to do in MSCONFIG, go to the site I have provided below. But what you
are
>after is to eliminate as many applications as possible that start during the boot
>process. This is done through the "Selective Startup" option within MSCONFIG.
This
>link is excellent!
>http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/
>
>Before doing the above, uninstall your trial version of Norton.
>
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