Perhaps my having Viruscope on or off is affecting the speed of Comodo initializing and whether that interferes with the desktop theme management or not, whereas with the OP, different settings and machine specs cause the interference whether Viruscope is on or not? If this isn’t easy to sort out withoutmajor diagnostics, testing and postingk, will have to dump CIS, find some other security software that just works easy.Īs I have exactly the same symptoms as the OP - after a start/re-start my GUI comes up in a basic, not the usual Aero theme it also has the same padlock icon in the notification area as in the OP’s ‘comodo err01.jpg’, though in my case without the text message balloon and it disappears if I click on it and the desktop Personalizatin tool has all the Aero themes greyed out and unselectable - I can’t help but think our problems are connected even if my ‘fix’ doesn’t work for him/her. Need software that works, can cope few minor bugs, nto big stuff. Can’t do all this diagnoatic stuff, downloading this and tht to create comprehensive reports taking hours.

Permanent prescription pain killers fog my head, can’t focus, can t concentrate, cn’t think clearly. permanent pain, typing ramps it up quickly. I used to be very tech minded, beta tester of several software products, adept at figuring out tests to narrow down problem sources, nailing down bugs and making detailed reports.

No idea how to get Viruscope working, but at least disabling it has let me use the computer again as a workaround. (Hasn t helped with the massive delays of any page using Flash or Silverlight loading, though). Disabling viruscope, startup is back to normal and GUI with Aero theme back to normal. Made some progress - at least the desktop theme/GUI and initial startup time problem. Plus browser (firefox) locking up for minutes with repeated ‘plugin busy’ messages before finally loading any page requiring Flash or Silverlight. After updating to CIS 10, Aero theme gone, unable to select any Aero theme (greyed out in desktop customization window), Windows own troubleshooter saying desktop window theme manager not running and unavailable (though Task Manager showed both service and exe running/enabled).Īdditional problems - takes ages starting up if logging on promptly, but stuck at ‘Welcome’ timer with no desktop ever appearing if leaving logon screen for a couple of minutes before logging on.

Win7 upgrade to win10