I did take out Zone Alarm, a few days ago. Because my WMP9 wasn't picking up streaming audio that I wanted to hear. I had been trying to figure this out for 3 weeks (off and on)and while looking in google search (about it) came across something that said Zone Alarm can cause problems. It said to set ZA for MEDIUM security, which I already had.
I tried taking it out to see if that worked, and after that the file would play.
I don't remember how I took it out, either from ADD/REMOVE programs or in UNINSTAL. Whatever it was supposed to be done with. I mean, I didn't just find it and delete the file.
When I started to it asked me if I would fill out a form telling them why I was taking it out? I agreed, and an email form with boxes to check and write in came up.
I think I know what happened with the reg keys.
I've had a problem (every few months, not often) where the computer crashes and when I restart, there's a screen saying WINDOWS HAD EXPERIENCED A PROBLEM AND HAS RESTORED A PREVIOUS REG SETTING.
Since this has happened before and I had to put in programs again, since the settings were current, I found out (with help here) how to save a copy of my reg settings. This happened earlier today, and after WINDOWS restored an old setting, I had it put in the last one I had saved, which was from the end of FEB.
When I had zone alarm.
which, I guess is why those settings think I have Zone Alarm, but I no longer do!
I figured at the time I would take it out and see if it fixed the WMP problem (which, apparently it did) and I could always reinstal it later if I wanted.
I know it's good to have a fire wall, but it seemed to slow it down (overall) and it also got in the way of exchanging pictures using AOL AIM. At least I think it did. When my daughter tried to send me pictures that way, it wouldn't connect, until I disabled Zone Alarm. (I tried disabling it to get WMP to play the file, but nothing worked till I took it out.)
I'm thinking maybe if I run Adaware and SpyBot, and check HiJackThis routinely, I can get away without a firewall?
Anyway, I guess the answer now is to take out the reg keys that were put back in, but no longer needed? If you can point me in that direction?
And then I'll make a new copy of reg settings to save.
Thanks for the help,
Carrie
I tried taking it out to see if that worked, and after that the file would play.
I don't remember how I took it out, either from ADD/REMOVE programs or in UNINSTAL. Whatever it was supposed to be done with. I mean, I didn't just find it and delete the file.
When I started to it asked me if I would fill out a form telling them why I was taking it out? I agreed, and an email form with boxes to check and write in came up.
I think I know what happened with the reg keys.
I've had a problem (every few months, not often) where the computer crashes and when I restart, there's a screen saying WINDOWS HAD EXPERIENCED A PROBLEM AND HAS RESTORED A PREVIOUS REG SETTING.
Since this has happened before and I had to put in programs again, since the settings were current, I found out (with help here) how to save a copy of my reg settings. This happened earlier today, and after WINDOWS restored an old setting, I had it put in the last one I had saved, which was from the end of FEB.
When I had zone alarm.
which, I guess is why those settings think I have Zone Alarm, but I no longer do!
I figured at the time I would take it out and see if it fixed the WMP problem (which, apparently it did) and I could always reinstal it later if I wanted.
I know it's good to have a fire wall, but it seemed to slow it down (overall) and it also got in the way of exchanging pictures using AOL AIM. At least I think it did. When my daughter tried to send me pictures that way, it wouldn't connect, until I disabled Zone Alarm. (I tried disabling it to get WMP to play the file, but nothing worked till I took it out.)
I'm thinking maybe if I run Adaware and SpyBot, and check HiJackThis routinely, I can get away without a firewall?
Anyway, I guess the answer now is to take out the reg keys that were put back in, but no longer needed? If you can point me in that direction?
And then I'll make a new copy of reg settings to save.
Thanks for the help,
Carrie
