Just a quick note about Norton

[Ponnfar]

This is just a quick heads up about Norton Antivirus and it's script blocking feature. I reinstalled WinXP and then installed NAV 2003 and HAL became very unstable. Also when I added additional plug-ins and various 3rd party voices especially those that use the older SAPI 4 speech engines, L&H or TruVoice as an example, there was no stoping the disaster. "Object disconnected" constant "improper shutdown"  error messages, other error messages and sudden crashes, etc.
Well, I saw no notes regarding the problem here on the forum. So if anyone ever has that problem the solution appears to be to go the the exclusions menu in the Norton program and entering "*.uhp". As added security I also excluded HALassist.exe as well. I hope you have no need to ever search for this fix but at least if you do, this may be it.
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[Bill819]

quote:Originally posted by Ponnfar

This is just a quick heads up about Norton Antivirus and it's script blocking feature. I reinstalled WinXP and then installed NAV 2003 and HAL became very unstable. Also when I added additional plug-ins and various 3rd party voices especially those that use the older SAPI 4 speech engines, L&H or TruVoice as an example, there was no stoping the disaster. "Object disconnected" constant "improper shutdown"  error messages, other error messages and sudden crashes, etc.
Well, I saw no notes regarding the problem here on the forum. So if anyone ever has that problem the solution appears to be to go the the exclusions menu in the Norton program and entering "*.uhp". As added security I also excluded HALassist.exe as well. I hope you have no need to ever search for this fix but at least if you do, this may be it.
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This may be why some people can not get Hal to run. I know that I had to shut down everything running from the start up menu including my virus checker before Hal would install properly.
Bill

[Morlhach]

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This may be why some people can not get Hal to run. I know that I had to shut down everything running from the start up menu including my virus checker before Hal would install properly.
Bill
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I suggest you to use AVG 6.0 free editionhttp://www.grisoft.com. AVG is free, lighter, and more efficient than Norton. AVG does not cause troubles with Hal
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[spydaz]

I USE AVG TOO, It is much better than norton, It is a smaller and less intrusive program. Norton Takes up too much Processor power.


I have also found That If YOu Put .NET framework on your computer and run older VB apps THE ALICE FUNCTIONS Cease to work.

I have just reinstalled MY Server 2K3 Enterprise, and alice works again in the combined NEXUS brain again.

Definately Worth it.

I have found also That if hal I reading Clipboards ( sometimes) One voice reads the clipboard and one voice read what hal says, after a while HAL starts crashhing Crossover voices.

Once ha; also read the popups from msn, now NO.

[antec2]

To make a long story short, Norton Antivirus seems to be incompatable with Hal for whatever reason. As soon as I uninstalled NAV 761, the improper shutdown messages ceased.

[Ponnfar]

After having made the Norton changes I mentioned, HAL seems to be working just fine. So far so good.
I was putting together another system and found issues with the latest Nvidia video driver and settings which use transparancy and other features. Maybe the card needs to be upgraded (64mg) but I would have the same identical problems as I stated in my initial post until I set the effects settings not to include Halassist.exe. After disabling the settings for that program, both the card, driver special effect settings in all other computer programs script based and otherwise, and all of HAL's functions and scripts also work just fine.
who knew...
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