Your system seems to be in a weird state right now, I can only recommend
that you either do a System Restore to a point in time before you installed
these games and started experiencing these problems or do a reinstall of
Windows (which I know you don't want to do.
--
Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
"andy" <andy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Mick or Andre=
> I have tried to uninstall pogo.com- it is NOWHERE in my startup or
> add/remove programs..but When I turn on the computer, it is still showing
> up
> in the PROGRAMS list..I don't know how to get rid of it and all I need to
> do
> is click on it, and I get right to the games.
>
> In addition, Ebay has a symbol on my desktop and there is nothing on the
> add/remove programs that even says ebay so I have no idea how to get rid
> of
> it,,,
>
> Can someone help as I am still getting the blinking black screen...
>
> Andy
> "Mick Murphy" wrote:
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>> You have 1/2 answered your own question!
>>
>> Uninstall Pogo games if they are causing a prob. As Andre says, post your
>> Graphics and RAM; your hardware may not be for a Gaming computer.
>>
>> Uninstall McAfee, and just use Live One Care.
>> A point to note; you CAN NOT run 2 antiviruses on a computer at the same
>> time, unless you want heartache!
>>
>> "andy" wrote:
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>> > When I turn on my computer, I have 5 names on Vista...After the
>> > computer
>> > boots up and I click on one of my user names, it goes to that name and
>> > loads-
>> > in the process of loading, the screen goes black- flashes off-goes on
>> > and you
>> > see the desktop and then goes black again and then it fully loads.
>> >
>> > I use McAfee Antivirus..I downloaded POGO.com games and that is when
>> > all
>> > hell broke loose...Then I downloaded Windows Live One Care on a trial
>> > basis...
>> >
>> > I have no idea what to do to make this work better and faster...
>> >
>> > I had a new hardrive put in a month ago and the computer is only 6 mos
>> > old.
>> >
>> > HELP
>> >
>> > Andy[/color][/color][/color]