Chris Lohman Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 I just recieved this from a customer regarding how he was able to stabilize IronCAD on WindowsME. I thought it might be helpful to someone else. ===snip==== I followed your instructions and removing all instances of IronCad 1.4 corrected most of the anomilaies I was experiencing with IronCad 4.2 This is why you havent heard from me. I thought I had turned off Norton Antivirus in the system startup section of Window's ME because I disabled everything that looked or smelled of Norton. After doing so I reloaded IronCad and it still crashed. I discovered that Norton was still running in the background and had screwed up the installation. I then went to add/remove programs in the Control Panel and removed all of Norton from my system. I then reloaded IronCad 4.2. The bulk of the system failures were alleviated but occassionally I would crash with a MFC42.DLL error. I ran scan disk and found that the system boot sector on the hard drive was changing causing scan disk to continually restart. I went back and looked at the startup programs and found that Norton doesnt completely uninstall because it installs in pieces. I uninstalled the remaining pieces of the program. I ran IronCad for several days and still experienced occassional crashes and IronCad not responding. I ran scan disk again and it reported a corrupt boot sector on my hard drive. I selected automatically fix errors in scan disk and ran it again. I now believe that unfortunately Norton Antivirus was the source of most of my problems. No more problems with IronCad crashing so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest amontecino Posted December 19, 2001 Share Posted December 19, 2001 I use NAV and SystemWorks and have had NO problems with any version of IronCad. I did turn off NAV during installation of IronCad5 but uninstalling is not necessary. I you are unsure whether NAV is running do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and end any Norton tasks running. Best regards, Allen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floris Stam Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 fixed in IronCAD SP2 and desinstalling Norton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EricFoy Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 My experience has been that the Symmantec anti-virus and the rest of their "let-me-take-complete-control-of-your-system" products cause more trouble than they're worth! When I buy a new system, the first thing I do is uninstall all the Symmantec stuff. I then have a much faster, more stable platform. For anti-virus, I use AVG-FREE. It works, and it's, well, FREE. -Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Ludin Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 ...only for private use, though. But it IS one of the sleeker and more efficient protection packages (AVG, not NAV). Beat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsulli555357 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 ...no problems at all with McAfee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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