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Error Gaurd Good or Bad

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by eraser3498

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Recently one my clients came to claiming that Error Guard had fixed his slow and freezing start up problems that he was having. (Which were non existent when I build the machine.) I told him that I've heard error guard causes more problems than it fixes and is a source of spyware. I also heard it?s the greatest thing since sliced bread. I don't think I can change his mind at least until it breaks down totally but for my own information what's the really story on ErrorGaurd. Also what could be causing startup freezes or slowdowns? Stops on the Windows XP logo screen with the blue loading bar underneath. Thanks for your opinions, comments and answers to these questions.

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by rob miners

Check this out.

http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=1763

Right click My Computer, select properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery Settings. Untick Automatically restart. This will give you the blue screen if a problem occurs and you will be able to get information that will be of use. System startup select Edit. At the bottom of the file you will see.
"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn"
Add /SOS to the end of the line.EG.
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /SOS

This will enable you to see how far the system gets on startup.
If you can get to start in safe mode run Spybot and a current Antivirus. Stinger can be run from a USB stick.

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