[Ad-Aware SE]

Yeah I tryed Safe Mode Maybe a new Dell will do the Job,Hey everyone send Money to South Carolina (LOL)Thanks Tarun

I did further research after this post.  Did you try Safe Mode?

 

When you upgrade to XP you have numerous options to choose from.  I generally do a clean install.  It's often for the best.

 

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[Ad-Aware SE]

Thanks Tarun, but that didn't work,I think I will upgrade to Windows XP but before I do, answer this for me, when I upgrade will they take everything of ME out of my system and thereby making my computer almost back to factor settings.

englishmen, please read the user's posts in full.  See the above quote.

You may wish to disable any running antivirus temporarily while you scan with Ad-Aware.  They can cause this common freeze.  The freeze is because your AV and AAW are fighting for control of this area.

 

Whenever expanding/extracting an archive (any archive, not just quarantined files), Ad-Aware extracts the files to %TEMP%\AAWTMP\RANDOM-NAME\files. This folder is created during the scan and removed upon completing the scan.  (Note: the RANDOM-NAME reference is to a somewhat randomly named folder under AAWTMP making it less susceptible to interference during the scan from other 'malware/software.')

 

This structure is often interferred with by other real-time monitoring software, like NAV, McAfee, etc.  The interference occurs when a file is extracted to the AAWTMP (folders).  If the extracted file is also an archive, it needs to be extracted again.  This can be a recursive loop.  Now, the antivirus tries to do the same. Each process wants control of the files that are extracted.  Unfortunately, both can't always win.

 

AV scans and Ad-Aware scans are separate processes which should not interact with each other (for the reasons above).

 

The solution many use, is to Exclude the  C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\AAWTMP\*.* directory and sub-folders from getting scanned by the antivirus realtime monitoring software or temporarily disable any running antivirus while you scan.  This improves the Ad-Aware SE performance greatly, and avoids the conflicts with the antivirus software.

 

Hope this helps!

 

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[Ad-Aware SE]

Hi all I have a problem with ad-aware myself.during a scan it gets to this one place and freezes C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\AAWTMP\C9863724,I have deleted this from the folder but it comes right back when I start the scan again.any suggestions,I have unistalled and Installed 2or3 times that didn't do no good. remember I that I am not to smart on these machines.so be easy with me,thanks for your help.

[Firefox]

Hey everybody I have a question for the experts,I downloaded and now using Firefox 1.0.6,does Firefox have this,example when I was using IE and went to a web site say Microsoft and did a search it would pull up every site for what I was searching for, with a link to click on, then after you visited it and used the back arrow that link you just visited would change colors showing you had already been there,does it have and can Firefox be set to do this?Thanks

[Restore to Factory Settings]

I have a compaq computer as well momnpopdays. Tell me one thing, does your computer have a recovery partition? You can find it by going to my computer and looking at your hard drive. See screen shot:

 

 

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No It doesn't have a recovery partition in it,I did a system restore but that didn't take me back far enough.when they did I forget if they typed in msconfig or what oh well maybe somebody else can figure it out. by the way I have windows ME running on it.thank you guys for looking.

[Restore to Factory Settings]

I have a Compaq Presario 5000 Model 5WV270 My Recovery CD does not work but a couple of years ago compaq techs. talk me through a restore to factory settings,using the start run on my computer.does anyony know how this is done or do any of you know where i can find out how to do this via a web site? thanks for any help you can give me.