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Absolutely file a complaint even if they correct what they did wrong. What if you needed to get into that account to sell something? Their customer service sounds as bad as Etrade's! You can file a complaint with the SEC too:
https://www.sec.gov/oiea/Complaint.html
Hey you!!! Board has been pretty dead lately. Hard to play bounce plays when everything is down for days at a time. I have been trading basically the same stocks back and forth for awhile now.
Took close to a month but finally a decent bounce this morning on EOSE - upgraded news.
AGLE down almost 50% - new ceo news
CNSP down 19% - trading today post r/s 1:30
So I deleted Avast on all three computers and am now using Defender. Here is what happened. The two laptops powered up within three minutes vs 8-10 previously. The desktop had no change in how long it takes, but I am hard wired on that one. But from temporarily disabling the wifi on the first laptop it threw something off where every time I turned the power on there would be no internet and I would manually have to turn it on. Then it got so bad that the internet kept turning off seconds after I reconnected it.
I spent hours troubleshooting. Unchecking power management on the adapter settings, updating drivers, resetting connections, running trouble shooters, deleting drivers and reinstalling, re inputting router password. You name it, I did it. Read about every article on the internet about what to do. Then I realized that I only use this one computer to view things - I don't use it anywhere else so I decided to hard-wire it to the router and it instantaneously fixed the wifi problem. BUT, now that it is hardwired it is taking long to boot.
So my guess is that there were two issues here that were causing the long boot ups. One was Avast and the other is the router.
I'm done trying to troubleshoot the wireless connection - I don't mind using hard wire for this computer. What I will do is unplug it at boot up and then plug it in to get wifi after everything loads.
Ok, so I uninstalled Avast on my laptop that has hardly anything on it and I only use it for watching level II on two screens - no internet browsing on it.
Now protected by Defender - checked to make sure it was on.
Restarted computer using Defender and it booted up in 8 minutes.
Turned internet off and restarted it and it booted in 6 minutes.
Decided to try a cold boot so I completely shut it down and powered it up again with no internet - booted in 2 minutes.
Then I turned internet back on and tried the cold boot with internet on and it booted in 2 minutes also.
So I am guessing that restarting takes longer than shutting it down completely and restarting. Two minutes to boot up is great and I am very happy. This tells me it was the Avast. I will have to try deleting Avast on my main desktop computer and see if the same results happen using Defender.
Hopefully this is the answer - fingers crossed and I thank all three of you for all the input!
thanks - it says that it goes off if you have another antivirus software and on if there is none - so I will try removing avast and see what happens
All three computers have auto update. All three computers have Avast. All three computers use the same router. Those are the common denominators that I can think of. Should I try to completely delete Avast and use Defender instead on one of them? If so, how do I get Defender to work? I think Eli mentioned it is on the computer. How do I get it back because I don't see it on here.
but because it is happening on all of your pc's it has to be something common to all of them. There has been a lot of chatter lately about hackers gaining access to Internet routers If you're using the cable company modem/router, then that is probably not the issue though, as they utilize multiple firewalls.
That would make sense, but I have Verizon FIOS as my provider and the router is Verizon. I'm just thinking here. The only thing we got changed recently, and I don't know if all this happened around the same time was the ONT from Verizon. I don't even know what an ONT is but it's in the garage and we had the original one from years ago (we were one of the first FIOS customers in the country when it first came out). I'm going to have to ask my husband about this. He was a FIOS tech now retired.
I used to use CCleaner years ago. Don't have it anymore but this is clearly not an issue about caches and registry since it is happening on all three computers. But thanks - maybe I will download it just to have it.
I think I use Defender firewall but not sure. So I just changed the setting on Avast to "delay on startup" just to see if this thing booted up faster. NO CHANGE AT ALL. I guess it isn't the antivirus software after all. I thought because it is happening on three different computers that it had to be that. Well is there anyone else on this board also having very slow start ups lately in Win 10?
thanks
No other virus software. Maybe I'll try it on my laptop first - disabling avast to see if it is the culprit. If it is, then what do I do? Just deal with it? I have to have anitvirus. I guess a new install might help too as you mentioned.
It's the free version and it is updated.
No new software and nothing new installed. All my drivers are updated. I am really beginning to think it may be a problem with the anti-virus - reason is because all three of my computers are having slow boot up problems and they all use Avast. I could change the setting on Avast not to turn on until after boot up but from what I read they tell you not to open any sites for a few minutes after booting up if you use this. That just defeats the whole purpose.
Ok so I tried that and the most recent update that I didn't have was KB5020030. Installed it and timed the reboot - started it at 9:09 and the Welcome screen finally went away at 9:21. I think it is getting worse. I am just leaving the computer on all week and only turning it off on weekends because I just can't be waiting this long to set things up in the morning. But I wanted to thank you for the suggestion.
STSA down 81% didn't meet the endpoints of the trial
VCSA down 38% - lowered guidance
META up because I dumped it Monday at around 96 and change.
TLS now down 69% - been watching this one all day - earnings play - they cut full-year revenue guidance and also reported a wider loss for the third quarter
What does that have to do with you saying that Biden turned off the pipelines? Which pipelines is what i asked you. I know of the Keystone XL - it was never even completed.
I'm thinking now that maybe Avast is causing the slow boot and found this which is interesting:
https://asapguide.com/stop-avast-startup/
Only problem is remembering not to start up any programs for a few minutes after boot. Not sure how that solves things. I could either leave it the way it is and wait a few minutes to boot, or I could change that Avast setting so that it is on delay but I am still waiting, right? Six of one half dozen of the other! lol
I really don't have that many apps running and it is happening on three different machines so they don't all even have the same apps. lol So I am guessing you are not experiencing this problem?
So I you saying that I should turn off all startup apps? This will make it boot faster?
What are startup apps? I just power up the computer and this happens. Not sure what apps you are referring to.
What pipelines? Keystone Pipeline ? That wasn't even in operation yet.
Yep same thing with inflation which is a global problem. Sitting presidents are geniuses if the the economy is doing well and doomed and blamed for everything if not.
Anyone having really slow startups recently on Win10? This has been a problem for me for the past few months probably after an update - all three computers taking about 8-10 minutes to start up - the Welcome screen just sits there forever. I have tried all of these fixes and none work:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-10-slow-boot-issues/
EOSE down 21%
CHPT and BLNK both car battery charging stocks down a lot today.
It's also a Chinese co - just a heads up on that.
Yep, I mentioned that the first day of the drop that there was no pipeline:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170272320
LUNG down 53% on earnings - that's a huge earnings drop - they beat by .02 bu t missed on revenue and guided lower
yeah, like i said one hour or one minute on those. I am trading meta today.
Yep, you got it right! If you micro trade like I do where you buy multiple lots it could be a real pain. I will just use this account for now with what I have in it and see what happens. They are a thousand times better when it comes to customer service but their platform is not as good as Etrade's.
Day three? what's that? lol or did you mean hour three or minute three?
Found a pretty big flaw with Schwab that might affect whether or not I end up migrating all of my accounts to them. I absolutely love their customer service. But when I sold two different tickers this morning I found something here I don't like. I didn't sell all my shares of either of these stocks. I only sold partial and I choose which lot I wanted to sell. The problem is, that after you sell it, you can see the trade on their website and which lot was selected, but they don't show it in realtime for your positions. Your positions show that they sold it against FIFO and they said even though you picked the right lot it takes two days after the actual stock clears for the lot you chose to disappear. That's ridiculous. So if you choose lot selection you will not see the correct lots that are still available in your positions until two days later. With Etrade, you choose a lot and sell it, it updates in real time and that lot you choose no longer is visible.
back in tcda .54
Yeah, I don't see any other drug on their website. I flipped it earlier for four cent gain. Haven't gone back in again.