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| Thread ID: 61424 | 2005-09-04 08:50:00 | death of the new laptop | jonp (7517) | Press F1 |
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| 385945 | 2005-09-04 11:43:00 | starting to drag on abit this one, but i have now restored the os and have done the following. install norton (complete with the firewall thingy), rebooted no issues there install ms office professional 2000 reboot no issues there install zone alarm and suddenly bosh same old issues of restarting by itself and its all over again. now i havent disabled the windows firewall so i was wondering if anybody has heard of any issues with this clashing with other firewalls ? or could ms office pro. be too much for this wee machine maybe ? |
jonp (7517) | ||
| 385946 | 2005-09-04 11:52:00 | Well u shouldnt run too many firewalls at the same time. This is a known fact. Or that will happen, they clash and crash. Turn off the windows firewall. And remove nortons or zonealarm. You dont need 3 firewalls running at the same time. 1 is enough. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 385947 | 2005-09-04 11:55:00 | Well u shouldnt run too many firewalls at the same time . This is a known fact . Or that will happen, they clash and crash . Turn off the windows firewall . Just had a look at it and the windows one was not running as i orginally thought . thinking about it previoulsy i installed avg rather than norton so it would'be only have been ZA and possibly the windows firewall running . |
jonp (7517) | ||
| 385948 | 2005-09-04 12:10:00 | okay i may (fingers crossed) have this licked. Has anybody heard of issues with SP2 and an old version of zone alarm ? the one i am trying to install seems to cause the issues and it is a couple of years or so old. | jonp (7517) | ||
| 385949 | 2005-09-04 12:20:00 | A 2 year old version of ZA? Playing with fire installing that, get the current release... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 385950 | 2005-09-04 12:46:00 | I changed to the latest version of free ZoneAlarm a few weeks ago & it gave me several problems with changed settings. I won't detail them all, as some were my own fault, I discovered later (I didn't configure it correctly). But what I DID learn by following up assorted Google links is that ZoneAlarm & the Windows firewall together are a NoNo. Most votes went for ZoneAlarm & disabling the Windows version. Mine is disabled. As I can't remember specifically doing that, I guess the ZA settings I chose did it for me? I was happy with my older ZA which gave no trouble. Yet this one probably does a better job - as long as you make the effort to understand it thoroughly when configuring it. It even changed one of my email settings in Outlook Express - and the way the Helpdesk operator asked me immediately if I had ZA showed me it's a common effect. (His remedy was merely to uninstall it, which didn't impress me. No help was offered for an actual firewall fix - just the OE setting change) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 385951 | 2005-09-05 03:28:00 | "... i did not reboot between any of the installs." Although you used to be able to get away with doing a bunch of installations without rebooting after each one, it now seems to be essential to reboot when instructed. (XP is enormous. It must be easy to get its internals disordered). One of the writers for an Australian magazine tried not rebooting on a test machine. It didn't take him long to get an unusable system. Start again with a clean system. :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 385952 | 2005-09-05 07:01:00 | uninstall norton, its a massive system hog | Prescott (11) | ||
| 385953 | 2005-09-05 07:28:00 | uninstall norton, its a massive system hog what would you suggest to replace it with ? I have NOD32 on my desktop but also have AVG lurking around on a disk somewhere. |
jonp (7517) | ||
| 385954 | 2005-09-05 07:32:00 | AVG | Prescott (11) | ||
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