I have done repair work and in total agreement with you.
Two things jumped out at me right away.
One it was found in the temp folder which means it might be stuff
that can be flushed with a cleaning of the cache and temp files.
Two it involved Norton. I have quit using Norton for a few years now
as it got blotted, and a resource hog. The advice to get rid of it
and get a free or different AV scanner is a good idea.
I use Avast mostly and find it very good. I also have three free
subscriptions to F-Secure through my ISP and have those installed on
a few PC's in the house.
I have not paid for an AV subscription for a few years now. (The
only problem in my sons desktop and that is because he is not careful
where he goes so I slapped F-Secure on it and locked it down.)
Stewart
At 06:26 PM 11/25/2007, you wrote:
I'm not a repair person nor do I know what is causing the problem
reported at the beginning of this thread (but I guess a conflict
with Norton and some other program or driver).
My comment is about the suggestion that the most efficient way to
correct a problem is to reinstall Windows XP after backing up data,
followed by data restore. I think that this opinion is valid only
in some circumstances. If a computer user has only a few
applications to reinstall, perhaps a day spent by the user to
reinstall is justified.
My desktop has 169 items shown in the Start menu. Most items have
submenus since they are suites: as a typical example, the Corel
Graphics Suite 12 menu item has a submenu containing 9
programs. Typically each program has been customized with
preferences, macros, setup options, etc. that must be remade when
that application is reinstalled. As you may guess, I estimate that
it would take me about 80-100 hours of work to reinstall the
applications following a new installation of Windows.
Instead, I prefer to back up the entire system including the
operating system in case of a complete failure of the OS.
But a day or less of sleuthing can find the actual error that causes
the problem and to correct it. So far this statement has been true
for me, and I have had many errors in both OS and applications. So
far I have not needed to reinstall Windows XP, nor has restoring the
full backup been necessary (even tho I keep two complete backups of
all internal drives on separate external hard drives). I did have
to reinstall everything long ago with Windows ME, and I am adamant
that this not happen to me again.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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