New dll's are bad for some programs, I think. What to do?
meirman
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>> A low-priced version of CleanSweep 2002 (part of NortonSystemWorks
>>2003), that I bought on Ebay, works better than it did on my computer,
>>but it still won't do anything!
First part, dupiclate. Second part, added. Two symantec groups
added.
By which I mean whenever I start it on my current computer, it just
churns (through the harddrive I think) endlessly (even before I try to
do anything). The same program installed on the new computer doesn't
churn at all, or if it does, it finishes instantly because I only have
500 meg, instead of 34 gig of files. That's how it works better.
But then when I click on something, like "Back Up Program" "Restore
Program" "Uninstall Program", "Remove Cookies, History, etc" nothing
happens.
I have an earlier version of CleanSweep when it was sold by
QuarterDeck and it is one of my most valuable programs. It monitors
installs and makes the info easily available. During uninstalls, it
sorts the items to be uninstalled and allows me to decide on a file by
file basis, and I think entry by entry basis in the registry. If I
overdo it, if I archived the uninstall, like they say to, I can
reinstall any single file or set of files that I shouldn't have
removed. I needed that once. It was great.
And my Quarterdeck version of Cleansweep worked fine in win98, but
now, not when I start it but only after I try to do something that
logically might scan the harddrive, it goes through the harddrive for
a long time and eventually crashes. I'm thinking the harddrive space
is bigger than it was designed for now, that it overflows some table
area, and if I Hide the backup partition, that will decrease the files
it has to scan by one half. But I haven't tried that yet. I'm still
logging my installs, something the new version didn't seem to want to
do.
>Good.It's in my,"Poo"list.
Norton is on a campaign against the email spam offers of 30 dollar
versions of NSW Pro 2003, which retails at about 100. I won't deal
with spammers, but I was willing to buy it off of ebay. But even
Norton doesn't claim afaict that the other versions don't work, and
they have on their website a Business Week article in which that
writer interviews an ex-spammer who insists he sold only genuine
Norton disks, leftovers from distributions to OEM computer sellers.
Do they really give them a disk for every license, for every computer
they make? Which the maker then doesn't include with the computer it
sells? That is just looking for trouble with thousands or tens of
thousands CD's running around. (The maker certainly doesn't use each
cd, a unique CD for each computer it builds.)
For the record, it's only the CleanSweep part in installed in the new
computer**.
**(Partly because to install the whole thing, it wanted me to install
IE5 and until I get a big one, I'm working with a spare .6G drive
which is almost full)
>Remove it.It's most likely a main cause for some of your problems.
Meirman
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