Powell
2007-10-17, 16:56
Good Day to all you nice forum folk:
I have a couple of questions, neither of which is earth shattering, but they have piqued my curiosity.
1. When I try to open Spybot-S&D from my desktop (first thing each day) I right click the icon, allow it to open as an administrator (I'm running Vista) and wait. Nothing happens even after a 2-3 minute wait. I repeat the process and away it goes after the normal 10-15 seconds. If I don't wait the 2-3 minutes but repeat the startup processes one after the other quickly, I get it in the 10-15 second period. Does this have something to do with the blindman.exe? Like I say...no big deal. Vista seems to have a few little quirks that require a an extra step or two. (no complaints against Vista either. I find it to be the best O/S Microsoft has put out since the original DOS and with over a million lines of code there is bound to be an anomaly or two.)
2. About two weeks ago I decided to give Firefox a try. When I downloaded the application Spybot-S&D lit up like a Christmas tree with warnings that a malicious spyware was trying to get in. I immediately dumped Firefox...in a choice between your product and theirs, Firefox loses. I had the immunizer activated at the time. Again, no biggie...I can live without Firefox, but I see that you list it as a compatible application. Is this just another poutty response on the part of Vista?
Best Regards one and all.
Powell
I have a couple of questions, neither of which is earth shattering, but they have piqued my curiosity.
1. When I try to open Spybot-S&D from my desktop (first thing each day) I right click the icon, allow it to open as an administrator (I'm running Vista) and wait. Nothing happens even after a 2-3 minute wait. I repeat the process and away it goes after the normal 10-15 seconds. If I don't wait the 2-3 minutes but repeat the startup processes one after the other quickly, I get it in the 10-15 second period. Does this have something to do with the blindman.exe? Like I say...no big deal. Vista seems to have a few little quirks that require a an extra step or two. (no complaints against Vista either. I find it to be the best O/S Microsoft has put out since the original DOS and with over a million lines of code there is bound to be an anomaly or two.)
2. About two weeks ago I decided to give Firefox a try. When I downloaded the application Spybot-S&D lit up like a Christmas tree with warnings that a malicious spyware was trying to get in. I immediately dumped Firefox...in a choice between your product and theirs, Firefox loses. I had the immunizer activated at the time. Again, no biggie...I can live without Firefox, but I see that you list it as a compatible application. Is this just another poutty response on the part of Vista?
Best Regards one and all.
Powell