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I have new Thinkpad Z60 with 512M RAM and only MSOffice and a very few other
programs installed. It's only 2 weeks old and it's already behaving in a way
that makes me miss the mainframe. My 4 year old, fully crammed with junk
Thinkpad does much better running at half the speed.
About a week ago, apparently before my system started keeping restore
checkpoints (which was still a week after I originally started it up), my
system started a habit of thinking about something very deeply for around 25
seconds before it even starts trying to load the program, even with no other
programs open. Task manager confirms resources are not the problem. There is
hardly any paging activity, and even things that have been run recently and
closed often but not always take forever to load. I often, but not always,
get pretty good response during the first few minutes of a logon session, but
it always goes down from there.
The closest change I can think of that could impact performance is
installing Norton Internet Security 2006 about a week ago. I've already
instructed it not to check every single file, only the file types most likely
to matter, but that hasn't changed anything.
There's got to be a reasonable explanation somewhere. Has Norton Security
suddenly grown into such a major system hog? I suspect perhaps a system
setting or registry key got changed behind my back (as too often happens with
commercial software these days).
Solutions always appreciated.
programs installed. It's only 2 weeks old and it's already behaving in a way
that makes me miss the mainframe. My 4 year old, fully crammed with junk
Thinkpad does much better running at half the speed.
About a week ago, apparently before my system started keeping restore
checkpoints (which was still a week after I originally started it up), my
system started a habit of thinking about something very deeply for around 25
seconds before it even starts trying to load the program, even with no other
programs open. Task manager confirms resources are not the problem. There is
hardly any paging activity, and even things that have been run recently and
closed often but not always take forever to load. I often, but not always,
get pretty good response during the first few minutes of a logon session, but
it always goes down from there.
The closest change I can think of that could impact performance is
installing Norton Internet Security 2006 about a week ago. I've already
instructed it not to check every single file, only the file types most likely
to matter, but that hasn't changed anything.
There's got to be a reasonable explanation somewhere. Has Norton Security
suddenly grown into such a major system hog? I suspect perhaps a system
setting or registry key got changed behind my back (as too often happens with
commercial software these days).
Solutions always appreciated.