Systemworks slows down machine a lot

[Rowan]

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with 128MB Ram, Pentium 4 and a
20GB hard drive running windows XP Home edition. I also have Works 7
on it but no other software. It was really zippy. OE and IE opened
like a flash. Then I loaded on SystemWorks 2003 and it really slowed
down the browser and OE, though everything else still zipped along. I
tried using the speed disk function on SysWorks and defragging the
hard drive, but they were still really noticeably slower than before.
When I uninstalled SysWorks it sped back up again. Is there anything I
can do to make SysWorks run, but still keep my browser and OE runnign
along at the previous zippy rate?

 

[Nick Burns]

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with 128MB Ram, Pentium 4 and a
20GB hard drive running windows XP Home edition. I also have Works 7
on it but no other software. It was really zippy. OE and IE opened
like a flash. Then I loaded on SystemWorks 2003 and it really slowed
down the browser and OE, though everything else still zipped along. I
tried using the speed disk function on SysWorks and defragging the
hard drive, but they were still really noticeably slower than before.
When I uninstalled SysWorks it sped back up again. Is there anything I
can do to make SysWorks run, but still keep my browser and OE runnign
along at the previous zippy rate?

System works slows down pc's way to much. Don't matter what you are
running. Find one that does not load your system as bad. I used to use
Norton all the time but it is now bloat ware in my opinion. You need more
ram as window will use almost 250 megs for itself if you have it. 512 is
very nice and your system works will be better also. Take it off and watch
you pc come back to life.

 

[howard kainz]

System works slows down pc's way to much. Don't matter what you are
running. Find one that does not load your system as bad. I used to
use Norton all the time but it is now bloat ware in my opinion. You
need more ram as window will use almost 250 megs for itself if you
have it. 512 is very nice and your system works will be better also.
Take it off and watch you pc come back to life.

I put Norton Systemworks 2003 on 2 computers. On one of them it slowed
down everything so much that I removed it. On the other one I installed
everthing except the virus detection and it hasn't slowed down. Maybe
that is the culprit.
Howard Kainz

 

[Sharon F]

I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with 128MB Ram, Pentium 4 and a
20GB hard drive running windows XP Home edition. I also have Works 7
on it but no other software. It was really zippy. OE and IE opened
like a flash. Then I loaded on SystemWorks 2003 and it really slowed
down the browser and OE, though everything else still zipped along. I
tried using the speed disk function on SysWorks and defragging the
hard drive, but they were still really noticeably slower than before.
When I uninstalled SysWorks it sped back up again. Is there anything I
can do to make SysWorks run, but still keep my browser and OE runnign
along at the previous zippy rate?

I don't use System Works anymore but when I did, it was not allowed to run
all of the time. Antivirus, yes but not the rest of the stuff. I ran the
other things manually every week or two. Perhaps disabling the autostart
for the extra portions of the programs would work for you too?

 

[Guest]

I run Norton System Works with antivirus running all the time. That is olny component running at start up and I have had no slow down at all. I have 512 megs of ram.

 

[Sharon F]

I run Norton System Works with antivirus running all the time. That is
olny component running at start up and I have had no slow down at all. I
have 512 megs of ram.

It's always great when it works. The OP was having trouble with it though
so I was making a suggestion that might allow them to keep the program
without the performance hit. Thanks for your info though. It's good to know
that the program works well for someone.