Time for a new free virus scanner - advice?

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - shutting down now.  Cross your fingers for me; good Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I'll be back in about 20 minutes, maybe.

[Buster's Uncle]

No dice.  I swear I've seen the blue DOS-y screen -or one very like it- a million times after a power blink or something of the sort, but the holding down a key, delete, only gets me some W7 diagnostics/boot stuff, no BIOS access.  I couldn't swear I've seen it on THIS machine in the last 4.5 years.  $#@!

[DrazharLn]

Try F1, F2 and so on. Here's a list of likely keys for different mobo manufacturers: http://www.cpucare.net/Hardware/BIOS/Access_BIOS.htm

[Buster's Uncle]

Okydoke.  I did have a look at the same screen where I got the other system info for you in September, but it doesn't say anything about what motherboard unless I'm just not understanding the labels, and I don't think that's the case.

[Buster's Uncle]

...My machine takes entirely too long shutting down - not news, but I customarily shut down at bedtime and don't have to watch; not an option doing this, as once W7 starts booting, I'm stuck for another restart cycle...

[Buster's Uncle]

RL is happening, so no idea if I'll get in another run at this today - gotta go make up a new batch of my bbq sauce now...

[Buster's Uncle]

Can anyone tell me how to turn off AdBlock+ for a specific site?  I can never find any controls or settings for the thing, and I'd like to test if it's causing more problems at CFC than it solves.  My performance there has been truly terrible there lately, 3/4ths of the time...

[Valka]

You've got the red icon on your toolbar, right? Left-click the icon and you have several options. One is to disable it only for the page you're on, and another is to disable it for the site you're on. Click whichever is appropriate, and the ABP icon will change from red to grey on the affected pages/site. Refresh the page and carry on with whatever you're working on.

Keep in mind that I use Firefox. I have no idea if this works for any other browser.

[Buster's Uncle]

...IE, and I don't know about anything like that...

[Valka]

In that case, you'd best google some variation of "Internet Explorer+adblockers" and see what comes up.

On my toolbar ABP looks like a red stop sign with white letters that say ABP. If I disable it, the red becomes grey. Some shopping sites require disabling it before a person can use those sites. Thank goodness for Ghostery that prevents me from being instantly overwhelmed with all the crap those sites want me to see, and the tracking they want to do.

I'm not having any problems on CFC due to ABP.

Have you posted about this in the computer forum at CFC? That's the likeliest place I know of to find answers. My own go-to person there is Zelig.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've been talking to Petek in Site -he's a pretty awesome troubleshooter I've seen shoot trouble stone dead many many times for years- and he said to try turning it off at CFC to see if it's causing the problem.  Makes all kinds of sense to me, but I don't know how to do it.  I think I'll just uninstall the turkey tomorrow.

[Buster's Uncle]

I did do the uninstall, but I think I need to restart before I see the results.  Random events have triggered and this is the first time I've caught a breath in hours.  Will report back when I know more.

[Buster's Uncle]

Nah, the restart took entirely too long, and when I finally found a minute to look around some places, no improvement.

[Buster's Uncle]

...Actually, I see absolutely no difference anywhere; poop on that and the general terrible performance of this machine.

The new one ordered Friday night is allegedly to be delivered tomorrow; between an appointment to have a fasting blood draw for testing tomorrow that's not until 10 -not eating early's no big change, but coffee black and unsweetened sucks as much as waiting rooms in the morning- and coping with learning to do ANYthing on W10 -ugh- tomorrow should make for a really fun day... ;

[DrazharLn]

What did you get?