Originally Posted by bhau

Hi
I have had a lot of help in this forum with sorting out my networking.
Now have a huge problem ( i think)
I uninstalled NIS2005 as the subscription ran out and could not renew it due to the subscription date being 12/1899 etc. I installed ZA firewall and AVG antivirus. ( both free).
Now my pc taked a long time to boot up, and i sometimes get a black screen with the mouse pointer frozen. After a few times of powering off and on, it does load.
However, when i click on the "my computer" icon, the pane comes up blank with a searchlight, trying to find the drives? If I click on the my documents folder, the pointer just locks. I dont know if this is related.
The outlook program takes a long time to load.
I dont know much about pc's, but reading through posts in the forum I have not come across any with similar problems and how to solve them.I tried task manager to end programs when locked and notice the CPU at 100%( showing on the bottom of task manager window!
I hope that the above makes sense.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Ironically, I bougt a 250gb external HD and havent had a chance to connect it and take a backup.
Cheers