is there a way to stop Norton making my PC so sloooow?

Question

I have just installed Norton Internet security, and lone behold my laptop does not seem to be able to handle it.

When I first start up the computer does at least 5 minutes of processing before I can do anything. We then have a short period of reasonable operation. And then, after half an hour, the machine gets so hot and bothered doing pretty everyday tasks that it takes ages to do anything.

I know I should get a better computer, but that is not an option. The PC is not that old and to be honest there's no real reason why the software and hardware should really have a problem.

Anyway the question is - is there anything I can do to get the best performance short of uninstalling Norton? And is there any way to disable Norton temporarily? And could there be lots of other more useless programs working in the background that I don't know about? If so how do I sort them out? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes it is easy - UNINSTALL it - only way - it is RUBBISH.

It hogs your system resources and slows your PC considerably.

Loads of FREE software out there BETTER than Norton

AVG FREE
CCleaner
AdvancedSpyware Remover
ASQUARED
SpyBot

All free - google them or go to www.majorgeeks.com and search the site for the downloads.

OR

www.grisoft.com
www.spybot.com
www.ccleaner.com
www.evonsoft.com
www.zonelabs.com (free Firewall)

All these run side by side without conflict or problem

Answer 2

I have Norton installed any my laptop became slower and was taking ages to do the smallest amount of work. I dont know if this helps but i uninstalled programs that i no longer use, done a disk defrag and my laptop bacame a bit faster.

To be genuinely honest, although Norton ok, if your on broadband get the ree AVG software, as it downloads updates automatically, also get Ad Aware. afraid im stuck with Norton at the min til end of my broadband sunbscription end of November

Answer 3

Like most of these programs (worth their salt) they do an exaustive scan of every file it can see on all visible hard drives looking for nasty stuff. After it's done (and it can take hours) most are programmed to do this scan on any new files it finds--like the junk you download from the Internet or the attachment you got in an email message. Consumer Reports had a good article on the best of these programs. Norton was not high on the list IIRC. I schedule my scans for late at night when I'm not using the system. If it never settles down, uninstall it and take it back to the store.

Answer 4

Not really. Get rid of it, i use AVG and it's free. It works way better. The guys at my local computer shop recommended it to after my computer crashed from viruses when i used NORTON. But if you like NORTON, when your computer starts and your at the desktop hit ctr-alt-delete. Click the processes tab and end anything by user except iexplore.exe, taskmgr.exe and explore.exe.

Answer 5

I have AVG. It's free and hasn't slowed down my pc at all. I used to have a laptop with McAffee which was fine. Uninstall norton and get AVG. Norton's a HUGE program and your laptop probably can't cope with it.

Answer 6

Uninstall it or try avast antivirus or if you want to be with norton then add more ram

Answer 7

norton slowed ours down too i ended up getting f-secure suite from my provider & removed the norton

Answer 8

get rid of norton as it hogs system resources, i use zonealarm as my firewall and kaspersky as antivirus on my laptop and i hardly notice any diffrence in terms of performance, but also AVG is a very good app (especially that it is free)

Answer 9

I find that too - you should get some more memory and I think I might try Norton for advice.

Answer 10

go to Microsoft and download "windows defender" it will enable you to examine and disable any or all background programs including Norton..try it its free (just click on tools)