ZA VSMON appears to hang on Win95 reinstall

[Mark]

Since format and reinstall of Win95b, I get to a blank desktop (no icons)
with just a mouse pointer. The machine sits there for approximately 2
minutes with no disk activity and then the rest of the desktop loads
normally. If I try accessing the task manager during this time it shows
"Vsmon (Not Responding)". If I end the task I get a message about ZoneAlarm
not being able to initialize the TrueVector Internet monitor. If I remove
ZA from the start up StartUp Programs so it doesn't start, the problem
remains the same. Once everything does load up, I don't see Vsmon in the
Close Program Dialog box but everything seems to be working. I do see a
"minilog" from ZA in the Close Program Dialog box that I don't recall seeing
before. Tried shutting off the logging function in ZA but still there.
Any suggestions? What was supposed to be a simple reload hasn't turned out
that way.

Other than the basic windows install and update of audio, video, and modem
drivers, I've added the Dun1.3 upgrade, winsock 2 upgrade, Y2K upgrade for
Windows, Y2k for Dun & winsock, and IE 5.5 SP2 although perhaps not in the
proper order. Also installed Zone Alarm v 2.1.44 and AVG 6.0.698, both of
which I understood to be compatible with WIN95

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, Mark, ([email protected]) said...

The machine sits there for approximately 2
minutes with no disk activity and then the rest of the desktop loads
normally.

In Win98, this happens when you have a network card in the computer, but
didn't assign a fixed IP number, so that on startup, Windows is looking
for a DCHP server to tell it the IP number it is supposed to adopt, and
if there is no information after a timeout of two minutes, it will
choose a number itself, instead.

I don't know if the same can happen to Windows 95, though.


Gabriele Neukam

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[me]

Since format and reinstall of Win95b, I get to a blank
desktop (no icons) with just a mouse pointer. The machine
sits there for approximately 2 minutes with no disk
activity and then the rest of the desktop loads normally.
If I try accessing the task manager during this time it
shows "Vsmon (Not Responding)". If I end the task I get a
message about ZoneAlarm not being able to initialize the
TrueVector Internet monitor. If I remove ZA from the start
up StartUp Programs so it doesn't start, the problem
remains the same. Once everything does load up, I don't
see Vsmon in the Close Program Dialog box but everything
seems to be working. I do see a "minilog" from ZA in the
Close Program Dialog box that I don't recall seeing before.
Tried shutting off the logging function in ZA but still
there. Any suggestions? What was supposed to be a simple
reload hasn't turned out that way.

Other than the basic windows install and update of audio,
video, and modem drivers, I've added the Dun1.3 upgrade,
winsock 2 upgrade, Y2K upgrade for Windows, Y2k for Dun &
winsock, and IE 5.5 SP2 although perhaps not in the proper
order. Also installed Zone Alarm v 2.1.44 and AVG 6.0.698,
both of which I understood to be compatible with WIN95

ZA v2.1.25 does work on W95 (I don't know about 2.1.44).

If Gabriele's suggestion doesn't help, try uninstalling ZA
and installing its ver.2.6.88. There might be newer versions but
2.6.88 does work well on W95

J