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essexboy
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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Reply #90 on:
January 09, 2013, 03:21:49 PM »
Yes .. Unless windows updates offers it (the download will be smaller )
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 11, 2013, 12:05:02 AM »
I've done that now, ran slowly on restart, but probably because it was finalising the updates or something. I'll see how it runs tomorrow and let you know.
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 11, 2013, 11:56:25 AM »
The computer started up a little slowly this morning.
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essexboy
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 11, 2013, 03:08:02 PM »
As you have had a lot of updates I would recommend that you now defragment the drive and see if that gives an improvement
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 14, 2013, 06:39:49 PM »
Seems to be working ok now.
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 14, 2013, 07:16:12 PM »
How is the general behaviour now .. Any problems
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 18, 2013, 11:25:34 PM »
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Sometimes, if I switch it off it just says "Saving your settings" it just stays on that and won't switch off. Otherwise its perfect.
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essexboy
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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Reply #97 on:
January 18, 2013, 11:36:16 PM »
Is that a regular occurrence or just sometimes ?
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 20, 2013, 01:58:24 PM »
Sometimes, but regular. I mean, probably 4 times out of 5 it switches off ok, but 1 out of 5 not. Then sometimes when it goes into hibernation it won't "wake up" when you click the keyboard/mouse.
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 20, 2013, 03:29:51 PM »
That sounds as though a programme is not closing properly. Does this happen after you run a specific programme ?
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Interista
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Re: Win32:Dropper-gen (Drp)
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January 21, 2013, 07:26:16 PM »
I'll keep an eye out for it and let you know.
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