Hi all!
I didn't know exactly what to put in the subject line, seeing how this is a weird problem.
Everytime I go to type my name in a box for a login, it literally takes 20-25 seconds for my name to appear in the box. Also, if I go on message boards to type a post, or email or whatever! This never happened to me before. I have run adaware, spybot S&D, Norton's AV, CWShredder and SpywareBlaster and nothing is there. It just started happening a few weeks ago and is driving me nuts! Once it gets going, all is fine. But, if I click on another post to reply, same thing. I clean out everything each night, like Temp Internet files and cookies and still the response is slow at typing time.
Can someone please tell me why this is so, and what I can do about it?
Thanks to anyone that replies...
--Viv :)

Using IE?

If so try a repair, dump tifs and close all running programs including antivirus, start>settings>control panel>add/remove programs>highlight M$IE in the list and click remove, choose the repair option and click okay, reboot.

HTH ;)

Leroi,
Well, that is another problem with IE, I cannot repair. It all started with trying to update IE to IE6. It keeps telling me that there is a problem and it cannot finish the download. I really forget the problem. And IE doesn't appear anywhere in my add/remove. But, I can use IE, weird, huh? So, your solution would probably work except the fact that IE is not in my add/remove. So, now it looks like I actually have 2 problems now.
H E L P!!! LOL!
--Viv :)

Hmmm,

I've seen a command that you can enter in the run dialogue that could repair IE...

I'll attempt to find it.

You might try a "dirty install" of Windows, I can find instructions for that, but then you will need to do all your critical Windows Updates again. You really need those updates, IE and Windows are terribly insecure without them.

I'll be back with instructions for a dirty install of Windows and perhaps a command for you if possible.

IE is so easy to get screwed up, one reason I'm a Mozilla fanatic.

Here are instructions I received from Compaq Support in reply to a question:

"You can re-install windows using the cabinet files.
Start, click Run,
type c:\windows\options\cabs\setup.exe & press enter,
Windows will begin to reinstall,
Takes about 1/2 hour & all your applications will remain intact,
(You Won't lose any of your programs, files, data, etc.)
no need for a disk."

If the path to your cab files is different, you will need to alter the command appropriately.

Still haven't found the repair command for IE.

It is normal for IE to not appear in add/remove if you have never upgraded from 5.5.

There is a forum called Lurkhere with some real IE experts. This is the url:

http://www.lurkhere.com/forum768.html

They might very well be able to help you, or just a search of the forum there may turn up something. I can't figure out the search function here, nothing I search for turns up.

I searched for a question here I answered in regard to Netscape today from a few days ago and wound up having to go page to page to find it, never found it using the search function.

Thanks Leroi! I will try all that after a good nights sleep. It is 2:30am here and I have been going around in circles with this. Here is what the error message said when trying to install IE6...

I tried running IE6 setup again, and this is what happened...it jumped from 3% installed to 86% installed and then this error message came up(this happened all the other times I tried to install IE6 too)...

"Setup was unable to install all the components. Please close all applications and try running setup again."

Does this mean to shut down all that is running in my "close program" list @ ctrl>alt>del? The only things that are running at the time of trying to run IE6 setup are...

explorer
ZlClient
Navapw32
systray

If I close down explorer & navapw32 then my computer shuts down. So, what does this IE6 error message mean? I tried installing IE6 with my ZoneAlarmPro off and NAV off too, and still the same error message. I thought that maybe they were causing all this, but apparently not. So, now with all this going on...I can't correct my delay typing problem either.
Like I said, I will try your advice and see what happens. Thanks, and if you think of anything else, please let me know.
--Viv :)

You might check the very bottom of this page for help in troubleshooting Windows Update:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbcomm.htm

might help you "upgrade" to IE6(sp1). IE6sp1 works fine on my system, just not nearly as well or as secure as Mozilla.

I have seen a few commands for repairing IE in Win98, not sure if they would work in ME.

You might be able to access the repair tool through run>msinfo, one of the menu buttons. I removed msinfo from my system so I can't provide exact instructions. I am sure it would be best to close all running programs first.

Leroi,
Yeah, but which programs do I close? Like I said, if I close the explorer and navapw32 my computer shuts down. I never closed ZlClient or systray before, so I don't know what happens. Also, why would I need a dirty install of windows? I have the ME disk and about 4 or 5 days ago did a reinstall of windows for a completely different problem and still did not correct this issue either.
I dunno, I am very tired, I will check back here tomorrow, or I should say later today and check this post again.
Thanks for all your help Leroi, and like I said...if you come up with anything else please let me know, I am at my wits end with these two problems. Also, I will go to the sites that you mentioned too.
--Viv :)

You can go into Norton Antivirus options and uncheck load at startup (reboot), then when you get done with the repair you can recheck the option to load with Windows. I can shutdown navapw32 on my system without problems, so...

Just try to close everything except explorer and systray, or maybe try the repair through msinfo in safe mode.

I will be thinking (ha!) and try to help you more tomorrow, depending on how my wife is feeling. She has had a terrible "headache", if you can call it that (and other severe symptoms, sagging eyelid, burning eye) since Sept. 25 and we have been having to go to the ER and other doctors a lot. We have an appointment with another neurologist Monday. I now am of the belief that she may have cat scratch disease, had her tested for Lyme last Monday, but the results haven't come back yet. Whatever this is resembles Trigeminal Neuralgia or Atypical Facial Pain, which supposedly are the most severe pains known to medical science. We are at our wits' end. She is tiny and I don't know how much more she can take. It breaks my heart. :(

...Sorry to hear about your spouse, Leroi. Hopefully things will get better.

Thankyou ScoobyDoo,

We are having a very hard time.

Difficult to get anyone to take us seriously and have as yet to get any kind of effective treatment.

She is numb from the top of her head to the roof of her mouth, except it also hurts very badly. I can't imagine what it must feel like. She says her hair feels like nails sticking in her head. Slurrs her speech because of the numbness and pain, hoping it hasn't caused worse problems.

She is getting worse and we can't get her admitted to the hospital; the last ER physician said they don't admit for chronic diseases, but the only reason it is chronic is because we can't get a treatment that works.

She woke up moaning pitifully and loudly a while ago, never heard anything quite like it. She can get some relief from pain medication, but it doesn't last nearly as long as it should. She gets about an hour or two of relief from two Percocets. Then she is moaning and crying again. I have never seen such pain before.

I think it may be CSD (just thought of that last night); read that it can cause Encephalitis, but nobody has suggested that as a possibility. The neurologist in Memphis said he did not think it was a nerve and didn't seem very concerned, except for his money. I had to pay $221 up front, never had to pay a doctor before seeing him before.

We have another appointment Monday with a different neurologist in Tupelo, if we can make it till then.

She had a (normal) brain MRI in November.

Found this on a previous forum...hope it helps.It helped me. I had tried several different things to no avail until I tried this. Good luck!

Date: September 24, 2002 at 20:27:07 Pacific
Subject: IE6 SP1 Wont Install Everything

Reply:
from the above search one down explains it better;
Open Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer but Windows Explorer as in
the
file management program). From there go to C:/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/Uninstall Information. Right click on the Uninstall
Information
folder and select Properties. Uncheck the Hidden box and then click OK
or
Apply. A confirmation screen will come up. Select the Apply changes to
this folder, subfolders and files button. This will unhide all of the
files
in the Uninstall Information folder. You then need to move (not delete)
all
of these files to another folder that is empty. Any one will do or make
a
new temporary folder. It doesn't really matter just as long as the
Uninstall Information folder is empty. Reboot your computer. After
rebooting double check and make sure that the Uninstall Information
folder
is empty. You should then be able to install all of the troublesome
components (hopefully). If everything goes well you can then move all
of
those files that you moved previously back into the Uninstall
Information

Good luck,

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Leroi,
OMG!!! So sorry to hear that your wife is so ill! I cannot believe that these doctors cannot find out what is wrong with your poor wife! That is a disgrace to the medical profession! Yet, they can charge all kinds of $ and still wind up not knowing what is wrong. I personally say that they shouldn't get paid if they were of no help, but we all know that cannot happen.
Oh, I am so truly sorry for her. :(
Please post back here and let us all know what happened after Monday, please.
Now that I know about what you have been going through, I couldn't care less about a computer problem, and yet...you were so kind to offer advice to a complete stranger, with your wife being ill and all.
Take care of yourself and post back to let us all know.
Best of luck to your wife and to you...
--Viv

Dukefanrox,

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! IT WORKED!!!
I am so happy that it worked, and also my typing delay problem seems to be gone!
I posted on the security message board once, that if it wasn't for all these nice folks on comp.net...I'd not know half the things I already do. I am still learning (every single day), and I do have problems that I come here with (after I struggle on my own to resolve them), but if it weren't for you ALL, I wouldn't have solved half my problems.
You all are patient, kind and certainly understanding. I love reading every post on this board and the security board, even if I don't have that particular problem...just for the knowledge, for "just in case."

I love computing.net!
Thanks again...
--Viv :)
P.S. Thanks for all that you tried with me Leroi, and I sure hope your wife gets the medical attention that she desperately needs! Good luck to you.

Hi Viv...Glad it worked!! I tried several things for the same problem to no avail and, like you, found computing.net. Microsoft should post the article from the forum on their website since they can't do anything to help the problem.

The doctor tripled the dose of Carbitol (tegritol) my wife was taking, supposed to call back Thursday and let her know if it is working or not.

The neurologist seems to think this is TN/AFP or some form of cluster headache.

Hoping and praying...

Leroi,
I hope that's all it is. Cluster headaches are awful though! I suffer from migraines almost on a dialy basis. But, I never had a cluster headache. I have read a lot about them, and they are just simply unbearable!
Keep us posted!
--Viv :)

Neurologist changes meds since Carbitol isn't working.

Made an appointment with Lyme specialist, going to MO on the fourth.