MrTaco

Oh, gotcha. Well, it's kind of too late for that since I already went through with the uninstall/reinstall. And I don't really have anywhere to put an image of my hard drive anyway. But I've just disabled the boot scanner, it's never found anything in the whole time I've been using this computer, so I think I should be fine without it Although now for some reason the thing keeps trying to do a full scan each time I switch my computer on, even though it's only supposed to do it at 8 in the morning and the box for "start immediately if missed" is unchecked. Eh, will keep fiddling with it I guess. Thanks for your help though, dencorso.

Wait, what am I doing an image for? I think I missed something.

Not sure how badly double posts are frowned upon, or if it'll auto-merge like some places, but I took the plunge with the resinstall (after testing on my laptop first ). It's all up to date and everything, but it's still just lagging to all hell on startup. Only way to fix it is to catch it during that short moment when I can still press Esc to cancel it.

Hmm... a little hesitant at removing it completely. On one of my laptops (win2k on a little old PII), I just went with the upgrade and got 8, but it slowed things down so much I decided to get rid of it and go back to 7.5. The thing wouldn't let me install it again though, so I'm kind of worried about it happening again here.

I replaced the incavi.avm and upd_vers.cfg in the main folder with the one from the backup folder. It did seem to hang a little bit this time, though I can't remember if it used to do that or not. Either way, it worked, I guess. No multi-minute wait this time. Odds are it'll just end up being something weird with my computer, it seems to like developing odd little quirks of its own.

No such luck. This time it took even longer, maybe some 20 minutes or so :/ Maybe I should just disable/skip the boot scanner?

.....dammit, I seem to have broken something >_> I did the update, then figured I should let it run through a scan. Not too bad, only picked up one threat. After it was done, I decided to reset my machine. During the boot sequence, it got to the part where it says something like Then it just sat there for over 9 minutes with the HDD light flickering. A couple of times I tried ctrl+alt+del to see if that would kill it, or pressing Esc, or anything, but it'd just make the light stop doing anything and nothing would happen. So yeah, I let it go and it spent 9 minutes doing that, then the blue square came up and it was another few minutes before that did anything either. Once it got all that out of the way it was fine, it's just incredibly stupidly slow now. It was fine when I just changed the .dll, it only started doing it after I did the update and the scan. Sigh... nag screen doesn't seem so bad now

Make that last four! sleffing, I love you forever. Just tried the dll replacement, finally I don't need to sit with my cursor hovering near my uTorrent icon during bootup so I can click that stupid popup and make everything finish loading! I take it the bottom of the program window and About dialogue telling me that it's still version .560 instead of .556 is normal, right? I never got around to trying the manual update thing (haven't updated since the last automatic one >_>), the old thread that I found on dlsreports about this stopped having people post in it back in September or so. Dunno what made me think of it now, but I decided to see if anyone had found a solution to it yet, and here was this thread. Great to hear others are still going and it all seems to be working fine. Guess it's time for me to finally give it a shot