Gee... norton... the biggest virus people purposely install on their computers... slow computers down?
Nah... get outta here...
*EXTREME sarcasm*

Norton and I think bitcomet make computer slow.

Does it? I used to have Norton long time ago.

we all shud stand up for this

anyone knwo how to uninstall nortin without putting a so called trjan on my PC?

Thanks for the article Olli.

One thing important IMHO: NIS2008 does a QuickScan on bootup- I for one am Happy it does a quickie virus check.

Question was " What Slows Windows Down?"
Straight answer is: EVERYTHING!

New question: "What Slows Linux Down?"
Straight Answer is: NOTHING !!

Just my 2 cents.........

What is that?

Wow, awesome article. I had no idea that fonts could slow down Windows. Just deleted all my extra ones, and I see a marked difference.

I'm curious to know what effect non-aol affiliated instant messenger programs have, like Miranda IM and Pigeon.

Yeah - I did a test once by installing one of those 10,000 font packs to see how much difference it made. Good thing it was just a test machine I could wipe out and not care about. Keep in mind when you install applications like Word Perfect or Office lots of fonts come along with those.

Funny, Microsoft Newsletter of 29Jan08, says this (Caveat: Consider the source i.e., use at your risk and don't expect TOO much):
<quote>

Microsoft At Home and At Work NewsletterJanuary 29, 2008
Speed up your new (or old) PC

We're all looking for better performance from our PCs, right? Whether you have a snazzy new computer or a trusty PC with a few years under its belt, there are ways to make it run more efficiently. Here are some ideas for both Windows Vista and Windows XP, starting with this article on how to optimize Windows Vista for better performance <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195707>.
Pinpoint performance bottlenecks in Windows Vista <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195708>
More ways to improve performance with Windows Vista <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195709>
6 ways to speed up your Windows XP-based PC <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195710>
Turn off certain features to make Windows XP run faster <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195711>
Maintenance tasks for better performance with Windows XP <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8195712>

<end Quote>

For defragging (Windows XP built-in sux, dunno about Vista), I use and highly recommend Diskeeper Professional, check it out here: http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp You can download a time-limited full-featured trial there. I've used it for 3 years (& I gladly buy the $13 annual maintenance contract, gotten two full-version upgrades thus far). It really speeds up disk access esp for gigabyte-sized game files (pks, paks, gcfs etc).used in many modern games. Try it, you'll like it! (Disclaimer- this is not an ad, just my endorsement).

do you think my pc can run as fast as dualcore....

my specs only is
OS:microsoft windows xp professional

PROC intel celeron 1066 mhz

memory 256mb

video card 16 mb

but how can i play such as 3d games like dota,cs1.6 and other heavy games...

i only use tuneup utilities...thats my powers haha...a poor computer can run like dual core

Hi Guys,
not had much experience with norton but heard all the rumours. I use AVG free, been fine for me, and i play a lot on "Steam", The valve/shop game server thingy, which is incredibly resource hungry. I must admit i don't run anything at all whilst i'm gaming except Zonealarm, just for added security.
As for the LAN startup group, i'll remain neutral. They had a bad run, didn't they loose a law suit for embeded spam or something. Very expensive.

They tell you it's free but routes you onto poorly dot com which tries to sell you IT service, this is so bait and switch! The link doesn't work to the free antivirus, there isn't any free antivirus, just free trial! I can't complain on this more lack of time and energy, but...I had no problem with Windows Live One Care, and it worked fine. At least they support with the price included. AVG costs money, if you get onto their website you can see for yourself, AVG is out to earn money and spend money so why make out like it's free? ouivalerie

There is a free version of avg, called avg personal. Either the mother site or try Cnet downloads,com.
Failling that Avast doe's a free personal 1, the only snag is you have to reregister ever year, but it;s no hassle. In fact i got rid of Avg, for Avast which has a constant monitor, works with zone Alarm, and microsoft security centre recognises it.
Oh and iv'e been playing away on steam with really good ping rates and load times.

The best way to get good performace is to have maximum ram, max processor, keep your harddrive tuned, perge all unnessesery progams and files. Use CCleaner or the like to clean out old dll's and reg problems. And of corse good cards with onboards.like ram. I run a radeaon card with half a gig, plus 2 gig in ram, i can run most games on medium.

According to the may issue of PCWorld magazine......
VISTA SLOWS WINDOWS DOWN! Yes boys and girls, even with SP1.

This is not available on their website, (at least I couldn't find it quickly), but, if you happen across the issue it's the 101 best freebies issue (every May) and worth a look or a buy.

Oh yes, the tests also showed that it even slowed down machines that should be easily hardware sufficient.
In "Techlog" (by Harry McCracken (PPG 9 April 2008 issue)), it is reported that the the adoption of Vista (vs. XP) is roughly only about 1/2 of the adoption of XP (vs. 2000) or 17% vs 33% in the same time period after release.

I don't quite understand exactly how you can NOT manage to find an AVGfree download.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/ which can be linked to http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download.../frt/0?prd=aff

I find that article very interesting and I know from experience it is about a correct as you can get on this issue.

What I found very interesting is the mention of Acrobat reader and Foxit reader I have been using foxit for two years now because of my continual frustration with how long acrobat took to load. Foxit does the same thing just 100 times faster.

Personally I have never used an anti-virus program but my job for two years was nothing but finding and removing virus's so I figure if I get one oh well I will just take a few minutes and get rid of it rather than waste hours a week waiting on a slow machine because of a virus program.

Thing is I got only 3 of the mentioned proggys and if I do a copy paste all my system slows down quite a bit ... dunno y tho ... I only have symantec corporate and nod32 running with bluesoleil daemon tools WLM turbolaunch DU meter & safely remove that's it ... and I cannot live without those runnig same stuff are running on a friend's PC with exact same specs as me on same Vista eXtreme Edition SP1 (Custom Made By Me) but windows is faster than mine and he has just 2GB DDr1 RAM whereas I have 3GB DDR1 RAM