Too Slow

[deaner]

Recently my computer has slowed down to the point it almost stops. I had installed the Norton Anti Virus 360. I am running windows XP. I decided the 360 may not be compatible with my program so I uninstalled it but that did not help. I have added several FTA sites to my favorites. Would that cause the problem? I have also been visiting ebay. I am wondering if I picked up a bug. I need suggestions as to what to do to improve the speed. Thanks for your help.

 

[rad]

I tried Norton 360 on my XP laptop and it made web browsing a real pain. I finally pulled it off and using the free stuff my ISP provides.

 

[charper1]

What processor and memory amounts? What resources are being used when you look at your task mgr?

 

[Frank Jr.]

I use Norton 360 on my laptop with xp and have one of the slowest cpu's. A Celeron M. 360 at times may slow things down because it's running something like automatically defragging your hard drive running virus or spyware scans. You can call Norton support and tell them about what is happening and they will help you stop some of those automatic settings that may slow things down or you can do this manually yourself. One thing I did was disable that automatic cleaning of the hard drive and the defragging of the hard drive. May be that 360 could be in the middle of updating the definition files as well. I do these things manually. Believe me with a Celeron you do not want two programs running at the same time. With what I have done 360 runs just fine. Just my two cents. Good Luck Hope this helps. IMHO Norton 360 is a a great resource for Grandma or Granpa. Insatall it and forget it. I am not that far from that. With just a few personal setting changes I am very happy with it.

 

[Frank Jr.]

OBTW charper1 can help you better than I can. He is correct in asking what type of cpu and how much memory you have. This poor thing I use here is maxed out far as I can take it. 2G memory and a 7200 rpm 100g hard drive. I still have to be careful how I task it.

 

[Legato10]

Well... atleast you don't have VISTA.. imaging your machine deing a slow painful death.

 

[Frank Jr.]

Unh unh. Going to keep this old thing with xp as long as I can.

 

[deaner]

computer 101

I went to computer 101 and bidger suggested using CCleaner. It worked--many thanks to all.

 

[BigTimMN]

I always recommend Ad-Aware to clean up alot of the junk that you pick up around the web...