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How do I manually add entries to the Google Toolbar whitelist?

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Upon startup, Symantec antivirus automatically starts a system scan. This can be annoying for laptop users running on battery, as the rtvscan process must be manually stopped.

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I have a 2GB USB drive, keychain lighter style, that I want to use to backup data.  It shows up under Control Panel > Administrative > Disk Management.  From there, under Properties > Tools, I can backup everything in My Documents.  That’s the only way I can backup annything.  From there, I don’t know how to retrieve anything from it.  I can’t even display what’s in it other than the My Documents icon.  If I click on that, the computer just asks if I want to back that up again.

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Brief summary of XP nightmare below involving log on error problem.

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I would like to find out why my PC gets bogged down.  About 3 months ago I had about 24% free space on my C drive but now it’s down to about 3%. I have not downloaded any programs to that drive so how come it keeps getting loaded up like this? How do I find out what has been added and how do I get rid of this junk?

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