Quote Originally Posted by boybi View Post
i am now thinking that it's u******* with ZoneAlarm that is causing the problem. i have been using u******* for a long time and haven't experienced freezing. until only recently, when i switched to ZoneAlarm that the freezing occured. ZoneAlarm and Avast together doesn't freeze the PC, as have been observed that past couple of hours.
Come to think of it, I started using Zone Alarm and Spybot only after I shifted to AMD. I wonder if its a coincidence. As for p2p, I use emule and azereus.

But still I find the boot up slow, even after a clean installation w/ none of the P2Ps installed yet.

Funny thing also, Zonealarm has a penchant to update its antivirus and antispyware definitions from the internet during startup. This exacerbates the "freeze" problem.