From: rick on
hi, was out of town for a couple months and didnt use my home pc for that
time. came home and started updating. there were several i had missed from
being away. after downloading all the updates i'm having trouble with web
pages loading, sometime they do, sometime they dont and sometimes when they
do, they freeze. other programs i have installed seem to work ok i also
downloaded new versions of ad-aware free and avg anti-virus free. i'm using
XP home edition service pack 3, IE 8. also using zone alarm firewall. can
anyone help? thanks
From: Twayne on
In news:6CDDF08B-B4A9-4390-89D4-E60D4CF4BC08(a)microsoft.com,
rick <rick(a)discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> hi, was out of town for a couple months and didnt use my
> home pc for that time. came home and started updating.
> there were several i had missed from being away. after
> downloading all the updates i'm having trouble with web
> pages loading, sometime they do, sometime they dont and
> sometimes when they do, they freeze. other programs i have
> installed seem to work ok i also downloaded new versions of
> ad-aware free and avg anti-virus free. i'm using XP home
> edition service pack 3, IE 8. also using zone alarm
> firewall. can anyone help? thanks

If you're really convinced it's an update, then uninstall them one by one,
checking to see if the problem changes.
It's not likely to be an update per sae, but an update could have exposed
some other problem that has now become noticeable. I suspect that's what you
might end up looking for.
Be prepared to put a good amount of time into troubleshooting, or best
IMO, restore your your boot drive from the backup you made just before you
left town. Then you can instal the updates one at a time and watch for
problems. Assuming you have such a thing of course.

HTH,

Twayne`
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered
through personal experience does not become a
part of the moral tissue.

From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on
Did you SHIFT key break, too?

rick wrote:
> hi, was out of town for a couple months and didnt use my home pc for that
> time. came home and started updating. there were several i had missed from
> being away. after downloading all the updates i'm having trouble with web
> pages loading, sometime they do, sometime they dont and sometimes when
> they
> do, they freeze. other programs i have installed seem to work ok i also
> downloaded new versions of ad-aware free and avg anti-virus free. i'm
> using
> XP home edition service pack 3, IE 8. also using zone alarm firewall.
> can
> anyone help? thanks

From: rick on
hi, thanks for the responses. turned out to be the new version of avg
anti-virus. i uninstalled it and put the old version in and everything is
fine now. thanks again

"rick" wrote:

> hi, was out of town for a couple months and didnt use my home pc for that
> time. came home and started updating. there were several i had missed from
> being away. after downloading all the updates i'm having trouble with web
> pages loading, sometime they do, sometime they dont and sometimes when they
> do, they freeze. other programs i have installed seem to work ok i also
> downloaded new versions of ad-aware free and avg anti-virus free. i'm using
> XP home edition service pack 3, IE 8. also using zone alarm firewall. can
> anyone help? thanks