Well I usually stay outta these Techy threads but wanted to share this bit of info that I learned tonite. I'd recently created a backup of my files with the McAffee "Safe and Sound" and things went a little crazy on this thing shortly after.

Cookies were lost as soon as I left a page, links wouldn't show up as being "viewed" after viewing them, and the response time got slower and slower til the puter finally just shut down. This went on for three or four days til I settled down enough to backtrack and think of what the hell I'd done.

It seemed to center on the poorly named "Safe and Sound" and I found that the only way to dump the backup files (a zillion or two at least) was by doing it after hitting the Run Safe and Sound icon and editing after it started. Incredibly, the results were immediate. The puter runs as it should again and my cookie at the "Cat" reappeared by itself as if I'd never gotten lost.

Anyhow if any of you McAffee people out there have crappy performance, try dumping the backup files. Mine were stored in drive "E" and really made a mess of things.

I've been following this thread for a couple days, looking for pointers and had to share this stupendously clever (for computer dumbass like me at least) discovery.

Yerz,
Tweed (with a muddcookie...it don't get no better...)