topic Re: Search Glow - Problem... in PCs & Accessories

Search Glow - Problem...

KP141 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:15:54 GMT

Hey Guys,
Any help with my problem would and i would be eternly grateful, i currently am the proud owner of a VGN-FE21M, when i got my machine i was amazed at the quality but recently a program has appaerd on my Windows Task Manager although i can find no program files or programs that are named this. But i did read some where that it could be related to Java, this problem is causing my machine to run slowly even though i have 1GB of memory and it also causes my browser to close with no notification and also closes with a not responing error message. Apologies for the long winded explanation but any help would be gratly apreciated.
Kieran Pearson.

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

Blencogo — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:42:52 GMT

Hi Kieran and welcome to Club Vaio.

Do you have MSN set as you homepage in IE? You are right, it is a Java applet used by some sites - MSN is one of them.

Have a look right at the bottom of the page in this link -

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofiversion/index.php/t86138.html

it will give some info on stopping this running - it only runs if your Homepage uses it!!

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

KP141 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:47:24 GMT

Thank you very much Blencogo, i will try this now as this is really quite annoying, if it does work i'll let you know, if it doesn't then although i don't use msn, i do have quite a few tabbed home pages so i'll try what the person on that link said, again thank you very much i owe you one.
Kieran.
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Re: Search Glow - Problem...

KP141 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:08:30 GMT

Well I tried and failed, i did as the link said and checked my pages one by one and on their own none of the pages opened up search glow, so then i thought maybe refreshing the pages had got rid of it, but i put them all back which are ClubVAIO, GoogleUK, BBC News, BBC Sport, Warrington RUFC and BBC Weather. When i did this search glow once again reappeared! But then i deleted the home pages one by one saarting with the weather until all i had left was ClubVAIO and GoogleUK and no SearchGlow FINALLY but how can i have my home pages with out this Search_Glow. Thanks for the previous help but i am still stuck, anymore help would be grately apreciated...
Kieran.

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

Blencogo — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:16:38 GMT

The only way is to put them all in your Favorites folder - not set them as home pages.

I must admit I have a blank Homepage set (about:blank) because I don't like anything being loaded without me knowing about it. All my frequently used sites are listed in the Favorites Bar and can be opened with one click.

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

Thalamus. — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:53:31 GMT

Hi KP141

From what I can find search_glow is part of the Windows Live Toolbar..

Have you tried disabling the Windows Live Toolbar from IE, hopefully then search_glow should disappear from the Task Manager

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

KP141 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:28:33 GMT

Ah well thank you very much Blencogo and Thalamus, I will try both of your ideas, and hopefully this will be the last of Search_Glow, Cheers once again,
Kieran

Re: Search Glow - Problem...

KP141 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:06:43 GMT

Well yes i guess thank you is once again needed this time, i have succesfully added all my homepages again and removed windows live toolbar and finnaly no more search_glow! Woop!
Many thanks Kieran!