Title: Laptop browser problems
Ta Mere - June 3, 2008 09:12 PM (GMT)
Alright, well. After seeing firsthand on both the laptop and here that Norton happens to be a massive resource hog, promptly removed it via the Control Panel.
After restarting the laptop up, it seems that neither browsers(Mozilla or IE) will load TFS, GMail, or some other websites.
Tried restarting the computer, dunno if re-installing would be necessary.
Any suggestions?
Korvaz - June 3, 2008 09:32 PM (GMT)
Ta Mere - June 3, 2008 10:34 PM (GMT)
Tried both methods, neither of them made the situation the better.
Korvaz - June 3, 2008 10:58 PM (GMT)
OS Version, browser version, and any other utilities being run, if you please.
Ta Mere - June 3, 2008 11:48 PM (GMT)
Microsoft XP SP 2 Media Center Edition, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC are the utilities being ran.
Korvaz - June 3, 2008 11:56 PM (GMT)
Any firewalls, or another vrius scanner being used in place of norton?
Ta Mere - June 4, 2008 01:23 AM (GMT)
Nope, nothing. Though it seems to be working on the laptop for now. Something to do w/a buffer overload, strange.
Korvaz - June 4, 2008 03:02 AM (GMT)
get avast on your laptop, then.
Ta Mere - June 5, 2008 08:02 AM (GMT)
Installed Avast as you suggested, and after rebooting the computer, Windows has seemingly taken to the habit of not fully loading. Either it'll sit there with just the blank background, or the desktop will load, but none of the toolbar processes will show(i.e. Avast), nor will any programs run.
Korvaz - June 5, 2008 01:35 PM (GMT)
Someone else has mentioned this. How strange. I'll have a look into it, but I'm not entirely sure what causes it.
Ta Mere - June 5, 2008 09:48 PM (GMT)
Did a full systems recovery on the laptop, and everything seems to be running fine. Thanks for the help you offered.
Korvaz - June 6, 2008 09:16 PM (GMT)
Ah, yes. I'd recommend a good reformat now and then. If you've got a valid OS license, It's always a good option. Boot and nuke, then a new OS. Marvellous.
