Help pls TZ blue screen

Hi,

I'm getting blue screen appearing during startup when the applications are loading up. It doesnt happen all the time.

The blue screen with various words in there then disappear after 5 secs, and the pc restarts itself.

what could be happening?

 

Try disabling unnecessary startup programs that might be causing the problem one by one (through msconfig) until you stop getting the blue screen.

 

I've narrowed it down to either my bluetooth mouse or my 'zone alarm for vista'.

I searched up on this and it seems that people are getting blue screen from running zone alarm on vista. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

remove the "zone alarm" that is obviously causing windows vista to crash.

 

thx for your reply.

I will do that now and see what happens.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good firewall/antivirus which doesn't hog down the system? esp for the TZ

I notice there's the vista built in firewall and windows defender. Is the windows defender an antivirus software? Is the vista firewall adequate?

thx

 

I know about you.. but I am not using any anti virus program atm.. I only use windows firewall. windows defender (kinda like a spy bot remover?)

I hear microsoft is working on service pack 1 for vista... so I am just waiting for that to come out 1st.. then I will look into anti virus after that. even program like Norton 360 that's suppose to work really good with Vista didn't turn out well on some people's vista. (thanks to microsoft and their "hmm.. gasoline has 3 types... and they are making plenty of money.. let's make 8 types of vista) obviously even some programs works on 1 kinda of vista (basic/ business) not doesn't work on the other ( ultimate, just for example)

just stay away from websites and links posts by "who is this guy?" that could lead to virus.

 

Uninstalling zone alarm worked.

And OMG one thing happened, i previously measured the boot up time from power button being pushed to desktop wallpaper loading was 4 mins, now it is 1 minute flat!. this is unbelievable and i'm only using 4200 rpm 1gb ram 1.2 ghz.

How could one program make so much difference to boot time


I feel so happy now, serendipitous event!

 

rofl.

takes me 40~50 sec. I have to fingerprint/password @ login screen.

 

hehe, i initially was just assuming tz boot up are meant to slow since i read threads of slow boot ups on the tz

 

ZA Security Suite for Vista also did this to my TZ. However, the firewall by itself has not given me any issues.

I will try the SS again, when they release a new version (which I think they may have?).

 

I had the same experience on my TZ when I uninstalled McAfee and switched to AVG. My lappy flew after that, I had no idea that Virus Scan was such a resource hog.