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	ByFred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone.[/size]

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The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab).

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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LANGALIST PLUS Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to the retail version By Fred Langa Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog documents a little-known Win7 upgrade path from the Release Candidate. If you’re using the Windows 7 RC, you can upgrade directly to the final, retail release of Win7 Ultimate, though following this unsupported upgrade path isn’t for everyone. The full text of this column is posted at WindowsSecrets.com/2010/01/14/04 (paid content, opens in a new window/tab). Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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With regard to having to start, or re-start, Explorer, in order to get the Desktop back.

I re-start Explorer fairly regularly, to reclaim the hundreds of megabytes that it eventually gobbles and never releases. Usually this works, but not always. A re-boot is sometimes required to get my memory utilization back down to 800 MB from the eventual 1.4 GB. I also need to re-start FireFox and ThunderBird, as they also consume enormous amounts of memory over time.

A better way to handle startup programs is to get WinPatrol by BillP Studios. Among other things, this allows you to specify when each startup program actually begins to run. I let the most important ones start when I boot, and then start the others every few minutes for the next hour or so.

Jon

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

You might also make sure Norton is updated to the 2010 version – I’ve found in informal testing with my client’s units that performing the upgrade will improve the startup times significantly.

In regard to the order of drivers, when I rebuild a system I will usually start with the networking drivers. Once the PC has networking capabilities, it is much easier for me to seek out all the other drivers I need, either from the manufacturer website or from Windows Update.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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Norton Internet Security Suite seems to be implicated in such problems on a pair of WinXP-SP3 Home systems. However, ThreatFire freeware may also be contributing.

Also of note are a couple of ThreatFire annoyances: 1) it periodically throws up alerts that the computers are unprotected (no firewall or AV, it claims), despite the presence of a normally functioning NIS, 2) I yanked ThreatFire from a WinXP-MCE2005-SP3 system, because it seemed to interact so badly with ZoneAlarmPro that the system barely moved at times.

However ZAP itself is no prize in the startup department, sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to get going on the WinXP-MCE2005 system, where NOD32 is also installed.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

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To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

I use Startup Delayer myself, but I would not use it for delaying a firewall startup. You don’t want other apps (like say AV) going out to the net before the firewall is initialized.

I got rid of Zone Alarm years ago because their support really stinks. I switched to Comodo firewall, which has a nice user support forum.

Alternately, if you have a hardware firewall on a router, maybe you don’t need a software firewall like ZA, Comodo, etc.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

Reply | Quote

To delay a program’s startup, use Startup Delayer from http://www.r2.com.au.
It is free and works just as you would want it to, being able to delay the startup of multiple programs at different intervals.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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Many of the hardware manufacturers provide a guide for driver load sequences. We have a lot of Dells, and their support site has a recommend driver install sequence that has worked well for us.

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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The problem of explorer.exe not loading the desktop has been happening since at LEAST Windows XP SP2. We’ve been battling this demon for several years now and can’t find a good solution. Starting a new task and putting in explorer.exe always finishes the desktop load, but I’d be MOST grateful if someone could figure out why it’s happening to begin with! Oh, and we’ve never used Zone Alarm so that can’t be the issue.Thanks!

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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Oh Yeah,
I remember the “good old days” back when my 300 baud modem would connect to the local university (Hope College, Holland, MI) library and I could “surf the net” free of charge, all that I wanted. But was it really free? Yes, all the data that I could access and connect to cost me nothing, but as we roamed, grew and learned, we helped to build the “net” as it is known today. There are good aspects and bad areas just like in “life”.
Free is just a “state of mind” the “money” that we use to trade for the data and information that is accumulated and traded is just a token of what we “really” are looking for. What we want is likely different for all of us. For me it is just “MORE”. I crave knowledge, I find it everywhere, on the “net” and in my grand children, anything “new” is good and interesting to me.
I thank all of you at “Windows Secrets” for adding to this for me.
R~

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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It isn’t just Zone Alarm which delays the opening of the Windows Desktop (delays the startup of Explorer.exe, among other things). Avast has a boot-time rootkit scan which runs whenever you log into any account, every time. Comodo is another firewall with proactive defenses which delays other programs’ startups, sometimes causing drivers to fail to load (and resulting in a Blue Screen or reboot).

I do NOT recommend using the Windows XP firewall without third party additions. Vista and Windows 7 have perfectly good firewalls, but Windows XP’s firewall is infamous for its lack of outbound protections — the very kind of protections you need to detect and clobber today’s bots and Trojan Horse infections. Sometimes you have to just live with a certain amount of inconvenience for the sake of added protections. And Avast doesn’t really need to do its boot-time scans if you are doing weekly Deep Scans for rootkits anyway. So turn off the feature. Not so easy in Zone Alarm, which does not provide the user with such fine-tuning controls.

And do NOT apply Startup Delays to any firewall! You would be defeating the reason you have a firewall, by allowing some applications to launch and contact the Internet before they can be vetted by the firewall’s defenses.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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Threatfire is known to be incompatible with all Norton products. Choose one or the other. Also incompatible are AVG and Super Antispyware. There may be others, including Kaspersky.

-- rc primak

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I agree with Fred’s suggested order for installing drivers. Too many people omit the chipset drivers (the machine may run without them, but not as nicely).

I vaguely oversee more than 3000 Windows installations each year, on refurbished hardware. Most of our recipients are new to computers or technophobic. We went over to Microsoft Security Essentials because it gets the job done, without pestering the user, and without noticeably slowing the machine. We use the XP firewall for the same reason — firewalls that monitor outgoing requests ask the user to answer questions, some of which 99% of us cannot answer without Google — totally unsuitable for our clients. Is there a backup app with the same virtues?

Yes, we get machines returned with trojan infestations. Most of these are running Limewire in the bootup sequence, and the owners have deliberately installed what WS readers would call adware and spyware (the rest patronize gambling or porn sites). Security software will not help here.

Use a stopwatch to time your computer from turn-on to the end of the bootup, signalled by the hard drive light going out. If Windows XP takes longer than 2 minutes, you need to do some serious optimization. (Clean out the temporary files; run MyDefrag in “monthly” mode twice; enlarge the pagefile; run PageDefrag; turn off unnecessary background processes; install more RAM; etc. — only one of these suggestions costs money.)

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Yes, we get machines returned with trojan infestations. Most of these are running Limewire in the bootup sequence, and the owners have deliberately installed what WS readers would call adware and spyware (the rest patronize gambling or porn sites). Security software will not help here.

they are probably using the free basic version of Limewire, which may come with adware/spyware, Solo Owl. Upgrade to Limewire Pro for a price. Otherwise, get rid of the free Limewire app (and the stuff that comes with Limewire) and get FrostWire, which does the same thing as Limewire but does NOT contain any adware/spyware and is free. FrostWire is one of the LimeWire alternative programs out there.

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