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I'm happy to pay for one if it works well but as I've experienced with AVG, it didn't suit my system (I think?!?) I suspect that someone like yourself has much more knowledge on Anti-Virus software than me.
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Those that I recommended are ok. AVG was ok too before but since they released AVG8, we have been getting a lot of reports of ooddly behaving systems and it was the culprit just like in your case.
The following will help us look for the remnants of those programs that you've mentioned.
*download
RegSearch Tool by Bobbi Flekman
Unzip it to your desktop
In the search box, enter the keyword below & click "Ok" after each one.
Photo
Corel
Notepad will open with some text in it (the file will also be saved in the program's folder as well).
Post this text in your next reply.
*As for 3dsmax, it has a leftover service. I'll have you delete it now.
click start > run > copy and paste:
sc stop "mi-raysat_3dsmax9_32"
press enter.
sc delete "mi-raysat_3dsmax9_32"
press enter.
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I apologize for that very brief instruction regarding msconfig. Some of my reply got snipped after I copied and pasted it to my browser.
This tool will be a lot better than msconfig:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx
You can uncheck loading points that you don't to load. To be safe, only uncheck those that you know you don't want loading. Disabling drivers, executable for you hardware will surely cause problems.
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Because when I look through the list of installed programs I know what maybe half of those things are...and when I tried uninstalling the things I *thought* I didn't need it affected other things. A small example that I noticed is the icon association for heaps of file types is now altered and I can't get them all back.
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Well, to be honest, without me knowing the exact problems and without me knowing any details about it except this:
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when I tried uninstalling the things I *thought* I didn't need it affected other things.
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I'm not sure where to start. You need to help me by giving me descriptions. Do you know the name of the program you uninstalled?
For the icons, if you can't install the program back, I'll help you restore that default icons for those file associations.
I apologize if I sounded "tiring" but I'm not. Troubleshooting computers is not an easy task and without logs to work on like we have on malware removal, we base our fix on user's description. That's why I ask a lot of questions for clarification. That way, I will have an idea on what we're dealing with.
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