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| Thread ID: 45915 | 2004-06-07 05:20:00 | My Prev Post re Ram attention Susan B | heaton (3697) | Press F1 |
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| 242409 | 2004-06-07 22:41:00 | > > > If you had disabled it on start-up then it would > have > > identified it as the responsible party > immediately. > > Sorry Metla > Zone alarm when installed does all sorts of things to > TCP/IP stack, disabling its startup in Msconfig will > effectivly disable web browsing. Indeed,I was advocting disabling start-up programs for the sake of troubleshooting,rather then actually uninstalling programs 1 by 1 untill the problem has gone. The idea being to pinpoint the offending software as quickly as possible and with minimim impact on the machine. If he had simply disabled start-up programs and the initial problems went away then he would have been halfway to identifying the problem,as it is i believe he still has only found half of what was wrong. |
metla (154) | ||
| 242410 | 2004-06-07 23:39:00 | Attn: Steve Askew. Wherever did you get the idea that XP's built in firewall was not user friendly?? Turn it on and forget it. What could be more user friendly than that???? Nothing has got past it yet. Whereas Zone Alarm takes forever to set up. It refuses to work with some other programs and is just a bloody nuiscance. It may or may not work better. I wouldn't know. Remember my post was directed to someone even older than me who probably has nothing to hide anyway. I don't realy care if someone wants to nose through my files anyway. All I am concerned with is a random virus that could cause annoyance. :D keep smiling, Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 242411 | 2004-06-08 00:43:00 | Well thanks everyone for the interesting comments. My original query was do I need more RAM. I might be wrong but would all the stuff in Zone Alarm Pro just tip the balance between having enough RAM and just not quite enough ? I remember back in the DOS days when 64MB of RAM was pretty good and all sorts of things happened if you loaded a programme that took up too much. I have gone back to the free version of zone alarm which does not have as many bells and whistles and seems to be doing the job ok and have used this in this computer for the last two years without any bother. Touch wood. Thanks again for all help.........Heaton |
heaton (3697) | ||
| 242412 | 2004-06-08 00:54:00 | Lack of ram will show up as a performance issue, the computer will slow to a crawl the more you use it and in extreme cases will become unstable, but that is more likely caused by the user attempting to rush the comp while its already under heavy load and having a hard time freeing up resources for the tasks. Your problem i would have earlier guessed to be caused by corrupt windows files/reg entries or a software conflict. By removing the program you fixed the issue, however it may have been caused by another program running on startup that was conflicting with ZA,if this other program or even group of programs were disabled it may have potentially fixed the problem while still left zone alarm running, which I presume you paid for as its the retail version causing the problem? Not to mention that editing the programs on start-up down to only what’s required will improve performance by a huge amount. As to 256mb of ram, my gaming machine is only currently running 256,flies like a demon. |
metla (154) | ||
| 242413 | 2004-06-08 01:25:00 | It is VERY important with Zone Alarm to always uninstall any previous version before installing a newer one. Most problems I've seen with Zone Alarm are due to people being unaware of this and installing updated versions over the top of old ones. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 242414 | 2004-06-08 04:42:00 | When installing the pro version of Zone Alarm it tells you not to worry about previous versions as the installation will take care of that aspect. Yes I did pay for it but am prepared to let it go down to another experience. In other words I will cut my losses and stay with the free version. Incidentally while I was messing about I accessed the system monitor with its little graph going. I can't understand the different coloured traces and what they represent. The help file is no help at all. Will this system monitor tell me how much RAM is being used in a given session ? Cheers.......Heaton | heaton (3697) | ||
| 242415 | 2004-06-08 06:15:00 | I hope System Monitor hasn't changed too much since 98. Click Add, Add Item. Select Memory Manager on the left. I guess the most useful would be Unused Physical Memory. (on the right), then click OK. This would show the amount of RAM not being used at any given time. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 242416 | 2004-06-08 07:49:00 | Go to Help & Support | type in System Monitor | Using System Monitor | Setting up a monitor configuration | FrankS (257) | ||
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