Comments on: Even Mossberg Can’t Figure Out His PC

By: Gilliam

Gilliam — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:10:33 +0000

@Sean. strike one: mcafee. strike two: 7 malware scanners.
toss mcafee and stick with avg, use small AV programs like clamwin or drwebfree cureit for secondary virus scans.
the malware scanners, use just ONE, like ad-aware or avg antispy. drwebfree cureit has some malware scanning in it too.(if one of those malware scanners is webroot spysweeper, “kill it with fire!”)

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:23:18 +0000

No Virus/trojan. I had two scanners (McAfee (which saved my a** a few good times) and AVG. Around 7 spyware/adaware scanners. I never ran anything without scanning it. Either way, who cares? Whether or not it was a problem caused by XP degrading or a virus, it is still Microsoft’s fault.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:21:44 +0000

I have to agree with Danny. I recently made the switch to Apple due to frustrations with Windows, but I never had a problem with restarting or a cold start; msconfig allows you to kill a lot of the useless processes.

The thing that really drove me nuts was the fact that certain programs will reinstall themselves as services if you run them after disabling the “Run at Startup” or whatever they call the option in msconfig.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:49:22 +0000

It is true that pc companies are shooting themselves in the foot with this absurd nonsense. I thought MS was going to try and crack down on that. This is one reason why I still have a desktop so I can build it and don’t anything on it I don’t want. Still my xp lappie boots just as fast as my macbook but there is nothing starting up.

What’s also unacceptable however is that you wouldn’t Run > msconfig and shutdown all the crap you’ve or your oem has installed. 12 minutes is staggering. I’d say you have a virus or trojan.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:53:01 +0000

My XP side takes 12 minutes or so to start up, and sometimes didn’t shut down. Ubuntu has saved my and Bill Gate’s life (I was getting a bit crazed at the end there).