Norton at Start Up

[John R]

With Windows XP Home Edition I recently subscribed to Norton Anti-virus and
Norton Firewall. It seems to take for ever for Norton to load and present
the system is good box. How to speed this up or to disable? Would more free
memory speed the process?

 

[Guest]

With Windows XP Home Edition I recently subscribed to Norton Anti-virus and
Norton Firewall. It seems to take for ever for Norton to load and present
the system is good box. How to speed this up or to disable? Would more free
memory speed the process?

 

[Guest]

Sorry, John R, but from my experience of Norton, its a killer as far as
performance is concerned. I've uninstalled it on more than one occassion and
regained lost performance. There are other anti virus progs around such as
AGV and Mcafee that don't have this overhead.

 

[JS]

Norton has been reported numerous times as a resource hog. I would check the
options listed in 2007 and see if you can live without some of the less
important ones as a means of speeding things up.

JS

 

[DL]

Unfortunately over the years/versions, Norton has become progressively more
of a resource hog.
Having said that many AV's take a time to load.
It depends what memory you have now, and whether you have sufficient free
space

 

[Galen]

In John R had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

With Windows XP Home Edition I recently subscribed to Norton
Anti-virus and Norton Firewall. It seems to take for ever for Norton
to load and present the system is good box. How to speed this up or
to disable? Would more free memory speed the process?

Ah just a blog bit the other day...

Why friends don't let friends use McAfee or Symantec Products:
http://blog.kgiii.info/2006/10/25/why-friends-dont-let-friends-use-mcafee-or-symantec-products/

Why pay at all if you don't have to?

Malware Cleaners and Repair:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Pop`]

With Windows XP Home Edition I recently subscribed to Norton
Anti-virus and Norton Firewall. It seems to take for ever for Norton
to load and present the system is good box. How to speed this up or
to disable? Would more free memory speed the process?

Norton's defaults are rather strenuous and can take awhile to get setup.
I'd suggest going thru the Options and see what you may not need and turning
them off, but be careful. The only things I've turned off are scanning
outgoing email (doesn't play nicely with OE: can indicate a mail was Sent
when it wasn't), and the Heuristics.
The "system is good" box you mention is also a service that can be turned
off. That's the part that will save you the most time. IMO It's
unnecessary as long as one notes the AutoProtect is ON in the system tray.
IMO files you create or edit don't need to be monitored either.
Technically it's a small price to pay for good protection.