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A bit more detail, please

I found the problem – in the Firefox View menu – the toolbar check mark was turned off

Thanks

Tom

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Since Posting this thread, I have run into additional problems, which I almost certain were caused by AVG9. Latest was inability to get a new version of CCleaner.

Initially I had Link Scanner and Anti Spam turned off.

I have now also disabled
Firewall
ID Protection and
Resident Shield.

Resident Shield prevented the update of CCleaner.

I am pretty much back to the nightly scan, which is what I had running before.

I have had the same problem for several months now. My box only has USB2 on it. As far as I can tell this has not caused any problems and as far as I can tell, there has not been any speed reduction. I have 3 external drives on USB two printers, two scanners, and a label printer, along with an external USB hub to increase my ports.

When this first started, I spent a lot of time with Dell’s tech support and we ran several tests – everything checked out ok – they had no idea what was causing the error message since all of my ports on the box are USB2.

Tom

I tried right clicking on the clip board icon and it gave me an option to clean off the clip board plus a couple of other options that I am not sure about

Tom

rdclip was not in the task list, but accessing the task list made me realize that a reboot might solve the problem.

I rebooted and after that the clipboard starting working again.

Now I get an increase in the number of items on the clipboard when I do a CTL-C and CTL-V works again.

The clip board icon now says 6 of 24 items on clipboard. I don’t know where the 24 came from.

Is there a way to clean the clip board without rebooting?

I think the problem is solved.

Tom

No there are no error messages

Thanks Bob – I will break down and pop for a new one

Tom

Good luck, I had the same problem with an NTFS drive several months ago. I tried everything anyone mentioned and nothing worked.

In the end I bought a portable western digital USB hard drive and saved everything I could. Then I reformatted C and reinstalled from scratch – took a while to get everything back to my comfort level, but that was all that worked.

A friend looked at some of the maps and prints I had and suggested that the free space settings in ntfs were hosed and together we could not find any utilities to correct them.

I detailed most of what I did in a thread here – don’t have the thread data, but if some one can find it – it at least details everything I tried.

Tom

Thanks Doc

I mistakenly assumed it was part of the security setup – rmove program worked fine

Tom

Thanks Joe

After reading the propaganda, I think this is another bit of software that will take over a users cycles – I am going to leave it turned off

Tom

Major differences in 32 and 64 bit architectures are in the math processors – specifically the floating point math co-processors. Some difference in picking up more bytes at a time for storage to register ops.

Only noticeable difference would be in very big number crunching

Tom

Doc

I tried running the link both with firefox and with IE – neither would work.

Said I was running unsupported system.

I run xp-professional with sp-3 applied and IE-7 – the web site kept saying unsupported system

Any ideas appreciated

Tom

Turning off AVG’s email spam component solved the problem.

I got a note from AVG’s product support people that confirmed that AVG was the problem.

I now have had to turn off AVG’s link scanner – it was eating every spare cycle on my system, and their spam email support.

I am not real excited about the money I spent on AVG

Thanks for all the suggestions that helped me track this down.

Tom