Christy, If you uninstalled Zone Alarm, it probably created a restore point when you re-installed it. My WinXP seems to create a Restore Point every day, so you probably do have one from just before you started having problems. You should start the process of restoring a Restore Point, so you can see what days are available and then decide what you are going to do. You can cancel out of it before you select a Restore Point and click the Restore button. Ed -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of cristy Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 7:50 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- zone alarm question Hi all, I let my free zone alarm firewall update today and did not like the update. I tried uninstalling and looking for my old zonealarm exe file. Found it on my external hard drive and restarted. My avg has been finding a thing or two since though. Things just seem a bit off since I updated that program. Can I just try a restore point , going back to one to fix all as it was? I did not create one before updateing like a dummy. thanks Christy using xp btw. --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------