What the PC engineer did
Disabled Unnecassary software from the start up section
Removed Norton completely and replaced it with Avast!
Used Avast to do a boot up virus sweep and found a whole load of malware in the Restore point sections.
Re-enabled the Windows XP fire Wall, which he thought was ok.
The service charge was £45.00
After He left I discovered my version of Acrobat Distiller had stopped working. I thought it was in the installation disc of my Lexmark printer. It was not
I checked the MSCONFIG start up and found some acrobat names unchecked so I checked them, and discoved some checked programs which appeared to be duplicates on the list of my Re-installation of the Lexmark Software. So I checked them.
On boot up, two times I got a nasty error message. I left a panic message for the engineer on his answering service.
I noticed an empty check box, normally I do not check any box. I checked it and it successfully booted up.
I left another message to say it had booted up, but my distiller was not working. (This is important as I produce church documents that are too big to send as the original word file)
Re-tested the Acrobat distiller from word and from printing directly and that worked
I then left a third message to apologise for the previous panic messages and explained about the on startup config settings I had to re-enable.
The engineer Left me a copy of Zone Alarm, so I have re-installed Zone Alarm. I originally got rid of it due to contention with Norton, which I no longer use.
Avast! put up a dialogue box to point out a contention issue but allowed me to click a button to enable the work around.
(Do I need to disable the XP firewall if I am using Zone Alarm?)
The boot up time is back to being several minutes, as I also get MSN to start up as well.
I now need to let zone alarm know which programs to alow and to do a system re-boot, now I have already rebooted with Zone Alarm in place.
Zone alarm is asking to be updated AGGHHHH
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