Not visiting "as many murky places" helps. However, yes, you do need more than one anti-malware program....as many as possible. I've been saying this a long time. Not a single one of them will catch everything. I see it all the time. What SpyBot will miss, AdAware may find, and vice-versa, and the same with all the rest of them; SpySweeper, SpywareTerminator, etc., etc. Just one of them will catch something all the others will miss. -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Vandervoort" And I thought I was a tweaker! Harold, I've never heard of any of these programs, and I suspect you don't need any of them. It's entirely possible they are the cause of your disappearing icons, but I couldn't tell without inspecting each of them, and I just don't have the time. For the record, I use AVG Free Edition, Windows Defender and, occasionally, Easy Cleaner. Most experts say to use more than one Anti-Spyware app, but I haven't found it necessary. I also don't visit as many murky places on the web as I used to. I think experimentation is good, but it will sometimes lead to quirky results such as you're getting, and can be hard to diagnose. Maybe try uninstalling some of the freebies and see if that helps. Harold B. wrote: > Good question. I've been using the following cleaners for a > long time > now but this problem only recently started. I use Advanced > WindowsCare2, > BeClean, Windows' Disk Cleanup, HDValet, MRU Blaster, Space > Odyssey, > (all freebies) and on my own, periodically empty the Prefetch > folder. > Possibly I checked or unchecked something that is removing > that check > mark next to QL. Thing is, I'll never know what it was. If I > wanted to > be perfectly accurate with whatever I do in configurations, > I'd keep a > record of every move I make (a pain in the neck thing to do). > I'm very > careful with deletions, keeping a "hold" folder on the > desktop with a > record of wherever I removing files from, etc., but with > checks and > unchecks I've been careless lately. The muse of computers > might be angry > with me for such flippant behavior. > > Btw, for clarity we'll talk about the desktop icons all > lining up on the > left side of the screen after rebooting,.in another posting > with it's > own subject line. I only mentioned it here thinking on a long > shot the > two matters might be related. --- Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
