start menu problems

[biker666_05]

but it only occurs when i click on search my computer wont freeze until i press search

[Conan]

Well try doing the search again with just 1 anti-virus and 1 firewall running. I'm sure you can deactivate either 1 of them temporarily without having to uninstall.

[biker666_05]

i tried it with avg and zonealarm on and my start menu and taskbar still doesnt work but my desktop does

[Big Booger]

Temporarily disable the AV, firewall, and any other background program.

Then run search, and if it freezes wait for about 10-20 minutes until it unfreezes.

Then shut off the search companion. To do that click the "change preferences" option in the window on the left of the search screen.

Then click search:

"WITHOUT AN ANIMATED Screen CHARACTER"

It could be that the character is slowing down your PC causing the freezing.

One thing, what are your system specs?


Also try click the WINDOWS KEY, and F for a file search. and the Windows Key + F1 for a "my computer" search.

[biker666_05]

i waited 15 min and it doesnt unfreeze i disabled all my av and firewalls i already had the dumb dog disabled i have an athlon at 2 ghz with 256 mb of ram

[Big Booger]

What else do you have running on that particular machine?

Also did you try the windows key + the F key? What result did you find?

How did you disable the dog, if you can't get into the search program itself?

[biker666_05]

i disabled the dog with registry i did try the windows key+ f and the same thing happend

[biker666_05]

by running do u mean the processes or hardware

[egghead]

spyware

download

www.lavasoftusa.com

ad-aware

just to be sure

something is holding your hard drive

might be hd starting to go


egghead

[biker666_05]

i already used ad aware and spybot no spyware my hd is 6 years old is that too old

[Conan]

Originally posted by biker666_05
i already used ad aware and spybot no spyware my hd is 6 years old is that too old

You should back up important data, that drive is too old, it may go soon!

[biker666_05]

well thanx everyone for your help

[biker666_05]

i still think i can get a couple of more years out of it

[FastGame]

biker666_05 you need to do as Conan suggest. Backup your data and see if you can get one of those $49 80gig hard drive's at Best Buy, also one more stick of ram will do wonders for your puter

At the least you should reinstall Windows, Mcafee and Zonealarm install deep into your system and even if you uninstall them they leave parts that can cause problems. Plus you don't know what that virus really did but it seems that you have some bad problem after the fact.

Use AVG anti-virus and Sygate firewall, you can get both for free and they work excellent plus if you unistall them they do a clean job.

Keep in touch

[biker666_05]

yeah i already backed up my hd on cdr's and im planning to get a bigger hd this x-mas