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Gene E. Bloch
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      09-07-2010
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:32:40 -0500, panicxtricia wrote:

> Yesterday I uploaded photos to my computer just fine but today when I
> went to go look at my photos it said, windows not responding, windows
> restarting. It did that for the control panel and everything else
> windows related. I restarted my computer, didn't help. I did system
> restore and it said something went wrong so it didn't restore anything.
> I tried doing the run sfc /scannow and the thing didn't even open. I
> have norton security center which says everything is fine. I'm not
> computer savvy so I have no idea what to do next.
>
> Also, I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I went onto
> photobucket to upload photos on the website and I could open my photo
> folders fine and also open my computer... so I have no idea what is
> going on. Help is greatly appreciated.


Norton Security Center is a very good product, but they have done (at
least) one very stupid hitng.

There is a feature called Norton Product Tamper Protection. It prevents
- well, you can guess...

Unfortunately, at least when I last tried to do a System Restore, it
protects Norton against System Restore.

Turn it off in Norton's system pane (it's under Computer - Settings -
Miscellaneous), do a system Restore, and then turn it back on.

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      09-07-2010
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:06:12 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> hitng.


thing.

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