re: Browser boots at start up
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:02 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Norm
(1501 messages posted)
Also, did you go to that page at some point? You may have installed some kind of
plugin or add-on in Firefox that is automatically starting Firefox. In Firefox click
Tools and then Add-ons to check.
On Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 2:37 am, mr_angwin wrote:
>Hello all,
>For the past couple of days my browser has started by itself on booting the pc.
It
>always goes to the same page meetlocalpeople.org. The boot goes fine until it starts
>loading the programs on the bar at the bottom ( zonealarm, avg and such like) which
>is when it loads the browser, which is firefox by the way. If i close the browser
>and carry on as normal, after a few minutes a new tab will open and the web page
>appears again. This started the day after installing AVG 9 and my browsing was
very
>slow. I have since uninstalled AVG 9 and re-installed 8.5 and my browsing is back
>to normal speed.
>
>I have run AVG, spybot, ad-aware and super spyware blaster.......everything seems
>fine. I did an msconfig and checked all the items in the startup tab and once again
>all seems well.
>That is about the limit of what i can do without any help for people in the know.........any
>ideas please.
>Dave
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