Programs Needing To Be Closed When Shutting Down

Grippit

Apologies if people have posted this information previously.

Try these, some are more technical than others:

Get "Ad-Aware" from https://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/, it is free and is fairly easy to run. It finds spyware and malware.

Click on the "Start" button, click on "Run" and type in "msconfig", this will open the "System Configuration Utility", click on the "StartUp" tab, this will tell you what loads every time you start Windows. You can de-select these processes to see if it speeds up your PC.

To see what is currently running on your machine, hold down "CTRL" + "SHIFT" key and then press "ESC", the Windows Task Manager will appear, click on the tab that says "processes", this is a bit technical but you will see all processes running. I Google some of the process names to find out information about each.

Try using http://www.kaspersky.com/, they have an online virus scanner and also provide free virus software.

Make sure you have an updated firewall, https://www.zonelabs.com or comodo provide these free.

Any problems, feel free to get in touch.

Grippit.

albertross_2

are you talking about cookies or spyware?

If you have a clean system, it shouldn't pick up anything.

Another scanner you could try would be lavasoft ad-aware

and try https://www.ccleaner.com for a tidy up.

The_Saving_Man

albertross wrote:

are you talking about cookies or spyware?

If you have a clean system, it shouldn't pick up anything.

Another scanner you could try would be lavasoft ad-aware

and try https://www.ccleaner.com for a tidy up.

Cheers for that. ccleaner won't wipe important info will it?

albertross_2

no...........

when it installs, untick the yahoo toolbar option

The_Saving_Man

albertross wrote:

no, but it could be..

post the names of the problem programs.

Last shut down the programs coming up were ptawia and ccapp

albertross_2

do you have a kodak digital camera?

f1charlie

Are you running Norton Antivirus. Look here to see if it sorts out the ccapp problem:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2003080112421906?Open&tpre=de

The_Saving_Man

albertross wrote:

do you have a kodak digital camera?

Yes, I've got Kodak software on my machine

gaming_guy

i have kodak software on my machine and this will occasionally halt the shutdown process (and slows my machine down badly)