ok the stupid mc affee virus scan makes my comp take 30 minuites to boot. WHY?!?!? both pro 6.0 and the free version made just for buissness (company handout to be used on company computers) screw over my comp. can i disable the scan on start up some how?

30 minutes??? That a new one...anyhoo..if you're running win9x, just look in your autoexec.bat and config.sys, there should be two lines that have the word SCAN (or something to do with Mcafee, it changes on different versions) in them, just type REM in front of those lines and it won't scan on boot anymore...

Silly Mcafee, always pullin' ****e like that...

My company uses McAfee in everyone's logon script. Disabling the startup scan might be more difficult than you think. If you go to Add/Remove Programs and DO NOT see McAfee Antivirus (ignore LiveUpdate or something similar), that means it was a networked install. The settings to execute the startup scan aren't on your computer, they're on the server where McAfee is corporate-installed.

You CAN, however, go into your Services and play with the settings there! *smirk* I do, anyway. You can do this:

-Start>Run and type in SERVICES.MSC (in 2K; in XP you can right-click My Computer>Manage>expand "Services and Applications", then click on "Services")

-Double-click AVSync Manager and select "Disabled" or "Manual" for Startup Type

-Repeat for McShield

Hope this helps.

yeah i disabled scan on start up. that helped but now i have to find all of the programs that have been crashing my comp. crystalfonts is a culpret and so is something called rundel 32 which i think is some kind of code translator.

Quote: Originally posted by carbongraphite crystalfonts is a culpret and so is something called rundel 32 which i think is some kind of code translator.

RUNDLL32.EXE is a multifunction program that is very basic and very important to windows. I'm not sure exactly what it's functions are, but it runs when connecting to the net, while playing music, and many other things. Maybe a programmer might know more.

Doesn't matter though. If you meant that, and Rundel 32 was a typo, that's fine. If there actually IS a program called "Rundel 32" operating on your system, I'd find that very suspicious, as several viruses and trojans closely imitate Windows system filenames in order to fool people.

CrystalFonts might only be a conflicting program; it might work just fine when whichever program is conflicting with it, is removed. Time to Add/Remove unnecessary software and maybe check the "Run*" keys in your registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion.

This is what Rundll32.exe can/does do:

RUNDLL32.EXE settings

Sample usage of RUNDLL32.EXE executable:

Running a Control Panel applet
rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL applet.cpl (see this page for further reference of applets)

rundll32.exe AppWiz.Cpl,NewLinkHere %1
Creates a new link in directory %1 (name and target are requested by wizard)

rundll32.exe desk.cpl,InstallScreenSaver %l [Opens screensaver menu]

Open with ... function
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1
%1 is a place holder and carries first argument, e.g. Path+Name

rundll32.exe diskcopy,DiskCopyRunDll
Copy Disk

rundll32.exe user.exe,ExitWindows [Fast Shutdown of Windows]
rundll32.exe user.exe,ExitWindowsExec [Restart Windows]

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx n
where n stands for:
0 - LOGOFF
1 - SHUTDOWN
2 - REBOOT
4 - FORCE
8 - POWEROFF
(can be combined -> 6 = 2+4 FORCE REBOOT)

rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 install.inf
Installs given [install.inf] INF file

rundll32.exe user.exe,wnetconnectdialog [Opens Connect Network drive dialog]
rundll32.exe user.exe,wnetdisconnectdialog [Opens Disconnect Network drive dialog]

rundll32.exe rnaui.dll,RnaDial UUNET
Starts given connection, e.g. UUNET in Dial-Up network directory.


Thank you to these guys...


EDIT: Stupid colours!!!!

Damn, sounds like a .dll might be an important file. No ****.