OK. I’ve done that. I’ve enabled them all (except avast for which it claimed I have to be logged in as an administrator and it disappeared off the list after that) and it’s working as good as it ever did. I can try to enable that too…from Safe mode I guess (since I can’t seem to find how to log in as an admin…and I’ve given my only profile admin privileges anyway).
But I guess that could be the problem then.
I’ve done all of that as you specified and nothing…the same problem. It’s obviously some issue with Avast and interference with something else. To me it looks like everything hangs up after the network connection is starting to load in the Task bar tray.
OK. That changed very little.Avast has not loaded…it’s still hanging up (task manager says access denied). And the Task bar is non existent, anything that you minimize just disappears and won’t show up again (including the task manager) but is obviously still working in the background (Firefox asked to allow a cookie).
I’ve played around with the system a bit (nothing too drastic ) and I think I’ve figured out what’s the problem. Avast is apparently interfering with explorer.exe.
Anybody has any ideas how to take care of that? I like avast and I don’t want to deinstall it if there’s some soultion.
There appear to be a few cases where Avast and XP have problems, it looks like a conflict with other software but as of yet no common denominator has been found
Could you run a clean boot again, but this time just keep Avast enabled… Is the problem still present ?
Because explorer runs the task bar. And I’ve tried ending explorer and then starting it up again from the run box, after that it works better and other applications (like firefox) will run. Although after a while it all breaks down again.
I’ve tried a clean boot with only avast (which causes the problem same as always) and without only avast (in which case the task bar and everything else works normally).
Plus I’ve been trying to remember since when is this happening: Since I’ve upgraded Avast to the newest version the other day trying to find a way to get rid of the rootkit it kept reporting. (And I’m still a little bit worried about that )
Yes. I’ve tried that yesterday. It works wonderful until the first reboot. Then it all hangs up again. It’s obviously something in the start up process.
OK. But I need to get my computer into at least a semblance of a working order as soon as possible because I need it for some work and so on.(I should also start thinking about getting a new one probably ) So for now I think I’m going to have to remove Avast and see what other options I have.
Not a problem, like all software though sometimes a programme will not work on one system for no apparent reason. It appears you are one of the unlucky ones