At 12:18 PM 05/20/2000, Mike & Ginger Woodcock wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* At 02:23 AM 5/20/00 -0400, you wrote: An admitted prejudiced opinion: 1) Uninstall Norton; 2) The OEM version of McAfee is no good now! Bite the bullet and go to McAfee's home page and pay for the latest version, 5.1. 3) I don't know why you couldn't install the OEM version of McAfee, but in any case, it was probably 3.0, which won't help you much. This is just my OPINION. Not to be taken as "gospel". I've just had so much trouble with Norton, that I won't try ANYTHING that this company puts out. Norton products just don't work well with Windows, whether 95, 98, or 2000. (Major conflicts with the "code".) SgtGeorge Ok, I have a serious question here.. :-) I had not put Norton on the puter yet.. I just got it back from the shop because of the damage done by the recent bugs.. I had lost some Windows files and corrupted others.. I did install McAfee 3.1.1....... I shut down this am for something and it took 20 minutes to come up after the reboot... The last time I installed McAfee 3.1.1 on my puter was when I got it home brand new... I've always used McAfee. The only difference is my new puter is an AMD Athlon. So, is there a problem with McAfee and this new unit. I uninstalled 3.1.1 and rebooted.. It came right up.. just as it should have before. Is it something I'm doing or is my puter going to cause me an early death.. :-) HELP..................LOL ginger **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** McAfee 3.1.1 shouldn't cause any problems with bootup time; however, I don't know if there are any conflicts with AMD Athlon. It could be that when you installed 3.1.1, it assumed default configuration and is checking out your entire system for viruses every time you reboot! If that's the case, you can reinstall it, re-configure it so that it does NOT do a virus check at system bootup or Windows start. That is one of the options of McAfee. SgtGeorge