Okay, nothing happens, now what?

Ever since I installed Spywareblaster, I have had trouble running it. I double click the icon or select spywareblaster from the start/programs menu, and I hear perhaps two or three clicks from my hard drive and then nothing. I tried doing this several times in succession (after the three fingered salute as the only way to shut off the current application- I get the standard "the program is not shutting down" blurb), but it is still hit or miss whether the program will operate. I cannot get the program to operate at all tonight, and I need to check some things on the controls. Running Windows 98, IE6 with SmartExplorer overlay, IBM machine. I get no error messages, just an eerie silence. Any suggestions

 

Hi HeyPhil,

Could you try to doubleclick the SpywareBlaster.exe in the SpywareBlaster folder and let us know what happens then?
This would be helpful in figuring out what is going wrong.

TIA,

Pieter

 

Actually, Pieter, nothing was marked spywareblaster.exe, although there was an icon for a shortcut. I doubleclicked it, and it just opened up- after about five minutes. Is it normally this "sticky?" Even Spybot S&D opens in a minute or less, and I have long ago decided the best bet with that one is patience. Since I haven't had the program opened since I set it up, I'm going to try to update the program now. Thanx for your help, sorry if this seems a little whiney.

 

Hi HeyPhil,

I know on my horse and buggy computer it takes over a minute to open up.
But it sure ends up being worth the wait.

Regards,
Douglas

 

Okay, I admit, my machine was made in a previous millennium, but I guess I just need to have patience with this one. It also "hanged" on me after I updated, so I restarted with the same results. I guess I just have to start it and forgetaboutit until it actually warms up to me. I guess some things are worth the wait, like love and fireworks.

 

Hi again,

I'll bet you and I are the only ones on the forum with computers from the Middle Ages.

It does the same for me (although it doesn't really hang, just takes a very long time).

Hey, you must know my wife. She tells me that all the time.

Regards
Douglas

 

Okay, I'm not exactly running 3.1 on a 386, either, but at 32 mhz, I'm running about one tenth as fast as your 200, and I'm using 98 instead of 95. I'm just going to have a little patience, unless someone has a good idea. I did use spybot's settings functions to shut off a bunch of unnecessary startup programs, so I have fewer processes running at any given time. I'm guessing less is going on here than met the eye. I'm almost positive, however, that nothing was happening in at least a few of my earliest attempts to start the program. Thanks to all of you for your help, let me know if anything good comes of this. Phil