Toshiba laptop takes ages to shutdown

[davidib]

Just wanted to pass on the solution to a problem. I've recently acquired a Toshiba Equium laptop and a couple of days ago it suddenly started to take a long time to shut down Windows XP. This seemed to start happening after I installed ZoneAlarm Antivirus.

I eventually determined that it was the Toshiba Virtual Sound program that was causing the problem. I used msconfig to remove tvstray.exe from the startup and the PC now shuts down in a few seconds!

I suspect there is some conflict between ZoneAlarm Antivirus and the Toshiba Virtual Sound program but I know which of them I need least!!

 

[garebo]

davidib, you're on the right track, but zone alarm is a firewall.
AVG (grisoft.com) is a great and free antivirus.
There are many others.

All desktops and notebooks should have a\virus
and a firewall, but also some of these:

spybot - free
microsoft antispyware - free
hijack this - again free
adaware - free (lavasoft)

There are more. I run about 15 different programs myself.
Antivirus never ever catches everything and its impossible for any one program to catch everything either.

Also, i, and you, should do an online scan once a month.
I use trend-micro.com's "housecall", free. But i only allow it to do the a part, not a b and c.

Thought i would point this out to you.


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[davidib]

Thanks for your post. The ZoneAlarm product I am using is Zonealarm Antivirus which is both Firewall and Antivirus in a single product. I also have Microsoft Antispyware. I have used Housecall.

David

 

[garebo]

Gee, my apologies, i will have to check that out about zone alarm. Its always been just a firewall. I better go to their website and have a look!



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[garebo]

I knew about the internet security suite before, which is more than just a firewall, but i didnt know about the new one, the one you have, with antivirus, firewall and email security.
So, sorry about that, i wasnt aware of this new product.

Houscall from trend-micro is great. But recently it has evolved to a place i dont like. It allows stages, a,b,c, with c being a windows update. I dont like that, i would rather do that on my own. So i just go for a, which is all i wanted in the first place, an online scan for virus and other malware.




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