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Originally posted by travlin'easy:
Before replacing the hard drive, I would first run Win-Cleaner, which is a great program to get rid of junk files and registries that you cannot see.


Hi Gary. Does 'Win-Cleaner' do something different or include features not already included in Norton WinDoctor or Norton Utilities? I ran Norton Windoctor & Diskdoctor and the registries appeared to check out fine. How much does 'Win-Cleaner' cost, and can it be downloaded? Weblink?

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Originally posted by travlin'easy:
from the way you described the activities, it almost sounds like a hic-cup in the windows shutdown procedure.


Gary, I think you may be on to something here, as frequently when I shutdown, I get a display window that pops up saying certain programs running in the background are no longer responding, and must be terminated by pressing the 'end program' button in that associated pop up window, before the computer completely shuts down. These programs have included:

1) CiceroUIWndframe
2) Sys Fader
3) IMApp.exe
4) taskmgr.exe
5) Norton AntiVirus

Other than Norton AntiVirus, I have no idea what the other ones are for. Anyone know?

Thanks in advance for additional help and advice from all.

Scott
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