Vista - 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

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

"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.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]