Multiple bulls-eye icons, very slow IE

[Howard Sartori]

When MSASW loads it shows dozens of icons in the System
Tray. Mousing over causes all to disappear. Sometimes
the main icon remains and I can r-click to use MSASW, but
usually not. IE is extremely slow to open. When other
applications open, multiple icons again appear in the
System Tray only to disappear during mouseover.
This has happened before on a few PCs. Very annoying.
b615 /5749.
Thanks. /Howard Sartori

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Tell us about the machine?

Is this a Tablet PC?

Are you running VNC with a host session active?

Do you have a fingerprint reader attached with software loaded for it?

 

[Guest]

PC is a ASUS A7V600 AMD, 1GB RAM, SCSI HD, pcAnywhere not
running as a host, no fingerprint reader. But, I am
running WinFAX Pro. Thanks. /Howard

 

[Bill Sanderson]

My experience with this makes me see it as a software conflict.

It'd be interesting to see whether if you boot having used MSCONFIG to
remove either anything related to Winfax Pro, or PCAnywhere from the system,
this persists.

Have you actively used PCAnywhere since installing Microsoft Antispyware?
What version is it? I think I have seen some conflict messages in
appcompat, but haven't checked the details.

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[Guest]

Yes, I just found pcAnywhere, which has run since MSASW
was loaded. I just turned it off - same thing. I will
run the tests to not start FAX or pcA (version 11.0.1).
Thanks. /Howard

 

[Guest]

I just used MSCONFIG to turn off pcAnywhere Services and
startup as well as WinFAX Pro and some other services but
no improvement in the MSASW performance. /Howard

 

[Robbie]

I'm having the same problem and yes I do have a
fingerprint reader attached.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If you block the fingerprint reader's driver, either via Microsoft
Antispyware's advanced tools, system explorers, or via MSCONFIG, does that
fix it.

If so--this is one cause of this issue which is known, and brought to the
attention of the developers already--thanks for the report!
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