- Oct 22, 2000
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A couple weeks ago, I decided that my ThinkPad could really use a decent set of Utilities, rather than relying on those included with Windows. Since McAfee hasn't yet gotten around to making a Win 2K utility suite, I decided to give Norton a try and downloaded the time locked version of Norton from Symantec's website. After using Norton for the last couple weeks, I decided that it was neither appreciably faster or better than the tools included in Win 2K (at least Norton wasn't $50 better), so I uninstalled the utility suite. Later that day, Explorer.exe crashed for the first time, and when the computer "came to" so to speak, the folder icons in Explorer had gone from the standard manila icon to a slanted blue icon (almost like the icons here only rotated about 30 degrees and darker blue). For the past two days now, every time I shut down my ThinkPad, I get a message about Explorer.exe not being able to access memory (a different hex location each time, and everything checks out on the IBM diagnostic program) and then a message about Explorer.exe not responding. I've checked for viri, and come up perfectly clean, which leave me with to resort to the ever popular "format c:" method of problem correction. The only thing I did out of the ordinary was uninstall Norton, then all hell broke loose. I know companies don't want people to uninstall their products, but they can at least make an uninstall program that doesn't mess up a computer. :| :| :| :| Anyway, Wish me luck, I'll be putting the restore CD in shortly, and hoping the problem is solved. Thank god for CD-RW drives to make backups of important files.