In a message dated 11/12/2004 12:40:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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ZoneAlarm Pro, or the free edition, should not interfere with  Internet
Explorer (IE). Did this only occur after installing ZoneAlarm? Is  everything
else running at normal speed? You have a couple of resource  'hogs', and
possibly more, so one thing I would do is add as much memory as  the system
will take. You didn't mention any spyware programs so you may be  loaded down
with spyware/malware.


Thanks Sven,
Yes, it only occurred after installing the latest ZoneAlarm (as of
11-8-2004).  I'm a believer in Ad-aware and have used the latest SE since  its debut.
For IE, when I'd open it, it would take about 2-3 minutes to  get to my home
page.  Then it wouldn't show all the graphics on the  page.  I would surf to
other sites (Yahoo, Google, MSN) and they too would  be missing some graphics
(little red "x's").  OE 6 slowed considerably on  opening as well.  MS Word was
only slightly affected but graphics-intensive  games were considerably slow in
opening but play wasn't affected.
I liked how ZA would notify me when IE, OE, aol would open...nothing else
running except GoBack, findfast,norton a/v and regular XP services.   Internet
history was set to 45mb and I regularly delete histories.  I  uninstalled ZA
and everything went back to normal.
Kevin Nowicki

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