task bar ghosts after Avast removal

In Win98SE, a freshly downloaded/installed Avast locked up the machine while
Firefox 2 was running. Three finger salute was ignored, and had to do a hard
reset.

On subsequent restart, after the inevitable Scandisk invocation, two weird
things occurred.

Firstly, on the task bas - before the screen icons were deployed - there were
three tasks shown, none of which were (obviously) running. Once the icons had
settled down (see #2) these ghost task bar "tabs" disappeared. On shutdown,
these same ghosts reappeared before the shutdown splash appeared.

When the desktop appeared on bootup, the icons appeared, then disappeared and
reappeared, then repeated this. Up, down, up, down, up.

I have since done an uninstall of Avast, but the behaviour hasn't changed.

I searched the MSKB for references to task bar ghosts but found nothing
promising. Any suggestions (esp. the ghosts) short of a full reinstall or an
exorcism?

"who where" wrote in message
...
In Win98SE, a freshly downloaded/installed Avast locked up the machine
while
Firefox 2 was running. Three finger salute was ignored, and had to do a
hard
reset.

On subsequent restart, after the inevitable Scandisk invocation, two weird
things occurred.

Firstly, on the task bas - before the screen icons were deployed - there
were
three tasks shown, none of which were (obviously) running. Once the icons
had
settled down (see #2) these ghost task bar "tabs" disappeared. On
shutdown,
these same ghosts reappeared before the shutdown splash appeared.

When the desktop appeared on bootup, the icons appeared, then disappeared
and
reappeared, then repeated this. Up, down, up, down, up.

I have since done an uninstall of Avast, but the behaviour hasn't changed.

I searched the MSKB for references to task bar ghosts but found nothing
promising. Any suggestions (esp. the ghosts) short of a full reinstall or
an
exorcism?


try restoring the registry to a date prior to you installing Avast


scanreg /restore

"who where" wrote in message
...
In Win98SE, a freshly downloaded/installed Avast locked up the machine
while
Firefox 2 was running. Three finger salute was ignored, and had to do a
hard
reset.

On subsequent restart, after the inevitable Scandisk invocation, two weird
things occurred.

Firstly, on the task bas - before the screen icons were deployed - there
were
three tasks shown, none of which were (obviously) running. Once the icons
had
settled down (see #2) these ghost task bar "tabs" disappeared. On
shutdown,
these same ghosts reappeared before the shutdown splash appeared.

When the desktop appeared on bootup, the icons appeared, then disappeared
and
reappeared, then repeated this. Up, down, up, down, up.

I have since done an uninstall of Avast, but the behaviour hasn't changed.

I searched the MSKB for references to task bar ghosts but found nothing
promising. Any suggestions (esp. the ghosts) short of a full reinstall or
an
exorcism?


try restoring the registry to a date prior to you installing Avast


scanreg /restore

What AV app was installed before you attempted to install Avast?

Did you attempt to install Avast5?

See
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96c4a46ce52710


who where wrote:
In Win98SE, a freshly downloaded/installed Avast locked up the machine
while
Firefox 2 was running. Three finger salute was ignored, and had to do a
hard reset.

On subsequent restart, after the inevitable Scandisk invocation, two weird
things occurred.

Firstly, on the task bas - before the screen icons were deployed - there
were three tasks shown, none of which were (obviously) running. Once the
icons had settled down (see #2) these ghost task bar "tabs" disappeared.
On shutdown, these same ghosts reappeared before the shutdown splash
appeared.

When the desktop appeared on bootup, the icons appeared, then disappeared
and reappeared, then repeated this. Up, down, up, down, up.

I have since done an uninstall of Avast, but the behaviour hasn't changed.

I searched the MSKB for references to task bar ghosts but found nothing
promising. Any suggestions (esp. the ghosts) short of a full reinstall or
an exorcism?

What AV app was installed before you attempted to install Avast?

Did you attempt to install Avast5?

See
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...96c4a46ce52710


who where wrote:
In Win98SE, a freshly downloaded/installed Avast locked up the machine
while
Firefox 2 was running. Three finger salute was ignored, and had to do a
hard reset.

On subsequent restart, after the inevitable Scandisk invocation, two weird
things occurred.

Firstly, on the task bas - before the screen icons were deployed - there
were three tasks shown, none of which were (obviously) running. Once the
icons had settled down (see #2) these ghost task bar "tabs" disappeared.
On shutdown, these same ghosts reappeared before the shutdown splash
appeared.

When the desktop appeared on bootup, the icons appeared, then disappeared
and reappeared, then repeated this. Up, down, up, down, up.

I have since done an uninstall of Avast, but the behaviour hasn't changed.

I searched the MSKB for references to task bar ghosts but found nothing
promising. Any suggestions (esp. the ghosts) short of a full reinstall or
an exorcism?