Gedneral question

[Sandy Mann]

Can someone please explain to me why my computer should start up differently
on different occasions.

I have a Samsung V20 laptop with XP home on it and sometimes when it is
booting up the icons take a long time - most of the boot-up time - changing
from the default to the custom format and at other times they all change
within a second or two. I have been assuming that the reason for this is
that my McAfee Anti-virus is checking the HD but why only sometimes if it
checks the HD on every start up?

Another thing that happens about 50% of the time is that the McAfee
Spamkiller fails to start and I have to start it in My Computer > Manage >
Services

Again about 50% of the time - thought no necesserily the same 50% - the
settings on my Outlook Experss default to 127.0.1.0 or whatever the setting
are where it is looking back at itself are. I read somewhere that this can
be caused by McAfee changing the settings so I disabled McAfee checking
emails but it still happens.

I could understand it if I had corrupt files and these things happened ALL
the time but, as I said. it happens only about 50 % of the time - sometimes
everthing is OK for days at a time then suddenly it will be back again

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Thank you for any help,

Sandy

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and the crowning place of kings

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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Can someone please explain to me why my computer should start up
differently
on different occasions.

I have a Samsung V20 laptop with XP home on it and sometimes when it is
booting up the icons take a long time - most of the boot-up time -
changing
from the default to the custom format and at other times they all change
within a second or two. I have been assuming that the reason for this is
that my McAfee Anti-virus is checking the HD but why only sometimes if it
checks the HD on every start up?

Another thing that happens about 50% of the time is that the McAfee
Spamkiller fails to start and I have to start it in My Computer > Manage >
Services

Again about 50% of the time - thought no necesserily the same 50% - the
settings on my Outlook Experss default to 127.0.1.0 or whatever the
setting
are where it is looking back at itself are. I read somewhere that this
can
be caused by McAfee changing the settings so I disabled McAfee checking
emails but it still happens.

I could understand it if I had corrupt files and these things happened ALL
the time but, as I said. it happens only about 50 % of the time -
sometimes
everthing is OK for days at a time then suddenly it will be back again

I assume the "127.0.1.0" is actually 127.0.0.1
This is being done by McAfee mail scanning. At the minimum, turn off email
scanning in McAfee or any other anti-virus. It provides no added
protection.

Turn off Spam Killer. Sooner or later it will screw up OE.

Uninstall anything from McAfee or Norton. Sooner or later they will screw
up your machine. Install NOD32 or if you need a free one, Avast or AVG.