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am having problems with newest Zone Alarm beta
  1. #1


    frogliver Guest

    am having problems with newest Zone Alarm beta

    After getting messages that the ZA beta for Vista needed attention because
    it was running out or something like that, I uninstalled it, downloaded and
    installed the newest ZA beta for Vista. When I rebooted it had totally
    changed my desktop: several icons were missing, taskbar was completely
    changed, Start Menu app I had was changed back to OEM, and it asked me to
    redo my profile.

    I restored the system and it is good now, but I really like ZA. The previous
    beta was working fine up until yesterday. I thoroughly dislike the new
    beta's changes to the Program Control settings menu/window.



    Has anybody else experienced this weirdness or know the causes and what to
    do about it?

    Thanks,

    Frog


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  2. #2


    frogliver Guest

    Re: am having problems with newest Zone Alarm beta

    An update: I have since redownloaded and re-installed ZA beta and it is
    working great again. As with most things Vista, another speed bump
    overridden by persistence.

    Frog




    "frogliver" <f_gliver@nospam.com> wrote in message
    news:O3mlwNWmHHA.3888@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
    > After getting messages that the ZA beta for Vista needed attention because
    > it was running out or something like that, I uninstalled it, downloaded
    > and installed the newest ZA beta for Vista. When I rebooted it had totally
    > changed my desktop: several icons were missing, taskbar was completely
    > changed, Start Menu app I had was changed back to OEM, and it asked me to
    > redo my profile.
    >
    > I restored the system and it is good now, but I really like ZA. The
    > previous beta was working fine up until yesterday. I thoroughly dislike
    > the new beta's changes to the Program Control settings menu/window.
    >
    > Has anybody else experienced this weirdness or know the causes and what
    > to do about it?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Frog



      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    Rock Guest

    Re: am having problems with newest Zone Alarm beta

    "frogliver"wrote
    > An update: I have since redownloaded and re-installed ZA beta and it is
    > working great again. As with most things Vista, another speed bump
    > overridden by persistence.


    > "frogliver" wrote
    >> After getting messages that the ZA beta for Vista needed attention
    >> because it was running out or something like that, I uninstalled it,
    >> downloaded and installed the newest ZA beta for Vista. When I rebooted it
    >> had totally changed my desktop: several icons were missing, taskbar was
    >> completely changed, Start Menu app I had was changed back to OEM, and it
    >> asked me to redo my profile.
    >>
    >> I restored the system and it is good now, but I really like ZA. The
    >> previous beta was working fine up until yesterday. I thoroughly dislike
    >> the new beta's changes to the Program Control settings menu/window.
    >>
    >> Has anybody else experienced this weirdness or know the causes and what
    >> to do about it?


    It's 3rd party Beta software. Ask the software author or post to the Beta
    newsgroup for it.

    --
    Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]


      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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