Perpetual Ruminations

Friday

It not only got late on me tonight, it went right on past late. I've been debugging my computer, and it's very time consuming. Yes, I have a good antivirus program, and it seems to be catching most things. But, my computer still was slow, and my internet kept messing up. I looked online for some ideas to speed it back up, and discovered that my antivirus does not protect me from adware, or at least, not all of it.

So, I downloaded a couple of free programs to try out and see which I want to keep and upgrade. They both worked good, and I did find quite a bit of adware on my system. One particular item was a nasty bug, and even though it was mostly removed, I still had some issues when the computer would first start up. Mostly, the conduit bug I had could not find it's module.

So, I researched further, and discovered that I would have to clean some of this out myself, or risk it reinstalling itself again. I found a page that stepped me through a cleaning of my registry, and hopefully I have it all gone now. And, hopefully I didn't mess up anything I shouldn't have while I was in there.

I guess we will find out on the next start up.