An interesting read that many people here should take the time to look at. The important results are here:

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/oth...windows_down/3

but if you want to read from the beginning of the article go here:

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/oth...windows_down/1

Absolutely brilliant mate.

I hope every member will read those links.

Sticky perhaps?

Regards Howard

Lol, Norton is at the top. Anybody surprised?

Nope, not really lol.

Resource hogging crap

Regards Howard

i have like 7 of those things on my comp
no wonder its so slow
-rok

Hehe certainly, I had a lightningfast laptop and now it's as slow as a racingsnail.
What do you think runs on it, yup yup Norton Internet Security.

toungue in cheek: attempting to use it :giddy:

i knew norton will be number one at least on one thing. lol. i got rid of it 2 years ago. the only thing i have is bit defender. what do you all think about avast? is it pretty good? or crappy?

I`ve been hearing some very good things about Avast, although I`ve not tried it myself yet.

Check out this thread [URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic58469.html"]HERE[/URL].

Regards Howard

Wow I have 17 of those apps on my main machine lol. At least ZA isn't on there :P

I noticed VMware Server adding a couple of seconds to startup time too (not that it would be a big deal to me), so I changed the VMware services startup types to manual.

Fortunately I still have a fast hard disk drive :giddy:

I agree with some of those, however, everything you do is gonna use system resources....? I believe the only things that should be on that list are things that are constantly running in the background, such as norton. I dont think programs such as photoshop etc should be on there.

Regards,

Korrupt

Applications that attach something to Windows Explorer can slow the system down after startup too. For example WinRAR / WinZip context menu has to be loaded when Explorer window opens, and if it's paged out, well, slows down. The same with "New..." right-click menu, applications can add a lot of things there.

lol norton, says it all just had to agree with everyone Has anyone emailed the results to symnantec? Good job on posting the link

I'm not totally susrprised - been telling my customers for 2 years to get shut

I use AVG and Spyware Terminator, the XP Firewall or NAT Firewall is all anyone needs in that department.

If you want to download AVG + Spyware Terminator (free and updates free) you can find them here www.pcpoorly.com (on the left hand side of the page

Chris
(PC Poorly Ltd)

dont forget to check updated version

link: http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/oth...windows_down/1

Thanks for the update mate.

Regards Howard

So its official, NORTON IS CRAP!!!!!!!!

Were you ever in any doubt lol.

Regards Howard

Er, nope Howard not for 1 second!!!!

Soooo, who's for starting up LAN, League Against Norton???????????