I understand the major importance of updates, anti-virus, spy ware, and other
protecctive type programs so just so you know about 3 weeks ago I had all the
updates from Microsoft's update site and a program calling itself "Security
Center" showing icons and logo's looking like Microsoft software poped up and
locked up my computer. I could do nothing to close it or do anything else
with my computer. I had a new blank hard drive larger than the one already
installed, so I took out the hard drive I had and put in the new one and
reloaded my software from the disks HP provided me with. After the software
was ran and I was finally at the desk top I clicked on the task bar and
selected properties. I then chose the classic menu style and selected Hide
Icons. I chose what icons to hide or show then clicked APPLY and the
computer froze up. I had to do a control, alt, and delete and tell the
computer to end task on the task bar and start menu customize application. I
tried doing this many times with the same results. Remember this is after
just installing a new primary hard drive and installing the original setup
disks for our particular computer. I just got to the desktop for the first
time with the new hard drive in and had not even installed the software for
my internet company (Juno). So I know how important updates, anti-virus, and
other protective software is. I'm just starting the computer from scratch so
I had not been able to go online at the time. Now I am and I'm trying to get
updates from Microsoft starting with SP1 and the first time I tried to get
that the computer froze on the install phase of the update. That's a whole
other problem probably related to me needing updates from Microsoft.
