OT, OT, OT....Plea for geek help

I have screwed around with Symantec and Microsoft all day, on a dial-up
connection and to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Since
I installed Norton SystemWorks (Utilities and Anti-virus), IE will no
longer display any images, just those damn boxes with the little X in the
upper left-hand corner. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling
IE or Norton?

JR

JR wrote:
I have screwed around with Symantec and Microsoft all day, on a dial-up
connection and to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Since
I installed Norton SystemWorks (Utilities and Anti-virus), IE will no
longer display any images, just those damn boxes with the little X in the
upper left-hand corner. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling
IE or Norton?

JR
Try www.getfirefox.com

HTH,

Russell

"JR" wrote in message
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I have screwed around with Symantec and Microsoft all day, on a dial-up
connection and to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Since
I installed Norton SystemWorks (Utilities and Anti-virus), IE will no
longer display any images, just those damn boxes with the little X in the
upper left-hand corner. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling
IE or Norton?

JR

Probably not! Both Norton and Microsoft screw the system too well. What do
you want to do? There are certainly good open source programs which will
achieve it better.

TL
MC

JR wrote:
I have screwed around with Symantec and Microsoft all day, on a dial-up
connection and to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Since
I installed Norton SystemWorks (Utilities and Anti-virus), IE will no
longer display any images, just those damn boxes with the little X in the
upper left-hand corner. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling
IE or Norton?

JR

Systemworks may have modified a setting somewhere to turn off image
display in IE. I'm guessing, but it may be based on some view of a
security level that you've requested.

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks
that would suffice.

L

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks that
would suffice.

L

I use Bullguard. It has both an Antivirus, Firewall and Backup feature. The
last featue I dont use, but the other
two features, works great. And Bullguard has a more frequent virusdefinition
update than Symantec.



Thank you,
Thomas Schreiber

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:03:41 +0100, "Thomas Schreiber"
wrote:

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks that
would suffice.

L

I use Bullguard. It has both an Antivirus, Firewall and Backup feature. The
last featue I dont use, but the other
two features, works great. And Bullguard has a more frequent virusdefinition
update than Symantec.

Really? All of our systems run NAV, barely a day goes by that they all haven't
taken a virus definitions update, and according to the logs on this particular
system it had two updates on Friday.

/daytripper (So, more than daily? That'd be "user-belligerent-ware" ;-)

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:03:41 +0100, "Thomas Schreiber"
wrote:

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks that
would suffice.

L

I use Bullguard. It has both an Antivirus, Firewall and Backup feature. The
last featue I dont use, but the other
two features, works great. And Bullguard has a more frequent virusdefinition
update than Symantec.

Really? All of our systems run NAV, barely a day goes by that they all haven't
taken a virus definitions update, and according to the logs on this particular
system it had two updates on Friday.

/daytripper (So, more than daily? That'd be "user-belligerent-ware" ;-)

LD Whitley wrote:

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks
that would suffice.

This turned out to be a workable solution. I have an older machine and OS
(98 SE), and it seems that all of Systemworks was taking up too much of
system resources (I've already installed the maximum memory the machine
will take). Installing NAV alone has freed up enough resources to make IE
work properly, and I can run Norton Utilities from the CD. Not an ideal
solution, but an OK fix until I can buy a new machine next year.

Thanks to all who responded.

JR

"JR" wrote in message
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SNIP
This turned out to be a workable solution. I have an older machine and OS
(98 SE), and it seems that all of Systemworks was taking up too much of
system resources (I've already installed the maximum memory the machine
will take). Installing NAV alone has freed up enough resources to make IE
work properly, and I can run Norton Utilities from the CD. Not an ideal
solution, but an OK fix until I can buy a new machine next year.

Thanks to all who responded.

JR


Well you might like to try these as well;

http://www.flashpeak.com/ ( Slim Browser, freeware)

http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/

They run very well on 98SE machines, increasing both performance and
stability.

TL
MC

In my experience, Systemworks is more trouble than it's worth. It made
good sense for the early versions of Windows where many basic functions
were missing, but for the later versions, especially XP, it just gets in
the way. I would un-install it and buy the plain Norton Anti-Virus
program. If you can selectively install Anti-Virus from Systemworks that
would suffice.

L

I use Bullguard. It has both an Antivirus, Firewall and Backup feature. The
last featue I dont use, but the other
two features, works great. And Bullguard has a more frequent virusdefinition
update than Symantec.



Thank you,
Thomas Schreiber