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[Broni]

Any current issues?

[Bent Club]

The only issue i thought it had was that it hung during boot , still does .
Wonder if it has anything to do with Avast . I had two friends who had to remove it because it played havoc with their computer .
I'll try i different anti virus and see if that works . If not I'll leave the computer on.

[Broni]

You may try to simply reinstall it.

Do those rundll.exe have any extra info?

See if same thing happens in Safe Mode.

[Bent Club]

Tried deleting and doing a new install before i posted .
No extra info .
Will try safe mode and see what happens .
Thanks again For your time .

[Broni]

Sure thing :)

[Bent Club]

Never booted this fast in safe mode before .
Will let you know if Avast is the culprit.

[Broni]

We cleaned some crap.

For testing purposes you can do this....

Go Start>Run (Start Search in Vista), type in:
msconfig
Click OK (hit Enter in Vista).

Click on Startup tab.
Click Disable all
IMPORTANT! In case of laptop, make sure, you do NOT disable any keyboard, or touchpad entries.

Click Services tab.
Put checkmark in Hide all Microsoft services
Click Disable all.

Click OK.
Restart computer in Normal Mode.

NOTE. If you use different firewall, than Windows firewall, turn Windows firewall on, just for this test, since your regular firewall won't be running.
If you use Windows firewall, you're fine.

Same problem?

[Bent Club]

Keep getting access denied error in msconfig . you may need to log on as admin , which i am .

[Broni]

When doing what exactly?

[Bent Club]

When i try to disable processes in start up , and services .
Got it to disable and it boots right up but can't enable avast .
Turned everything back on and avast is running .

[Broni]

What about the issue?

[Bent Club]

Sitll there , but not as bad .

[Broni]

What was the situation when you followed my reply #47?

[Bent Club]

computer booted fine , but avast would not enable .

[Broni]

Well, that's normal.

This is what you have to do.

Redo steps from my reply #47.
Restart computer.

Re-enable ONE service from those you just disabled.
Restart computer.
No problem?
If so, re-enable another service.
Restart.....and so on one by one until you find the culprit.
When done with services and still OK, do same thing with startups.

[Bent Club]

Will do .Thanks.

[Bent Club]

It was The Avast file .
Can you recomend a good free antivirus Broni?
Thanks again for your help.

[Broni]

- free Microsoft Security Essentials: http://windows.micro...rity-essentials
- free Comodo Antivirus: http://www.comodo.co...y/antivirus.php

Any other issues?

[Bent Club]

No .

[Broni]

Way to go!!
Good luck and stay safe :)