PaulAl

Please uninstall Zone Alarm from the system and check in order to see if the issue reoccurs. Tried that already - was a logical thing to do - but it did not make any difference. My guess is that it needs some XP services running, which I have disabled... Running Terminal Services did not help either, btw.

Hello PaulAl, Does the settings get enabled after each update, or the Scan Activity Bar appears even if the setting is disabled? Cris. Same here: it is disabled. But I did try booting while enabled, then disabled and rebooted. Still appearing...