what slows windows down - a comparison

Haha look at Norton. I feel bad for anyone that uses it. That's just boot time though. But I guess it gives you an idea how boot time can be affected.
 
So is that when you have those things set to run at startup or just in general?
 
What bothers me the most about this is that the rest of the apps can be disabled at startup. However, if you were to disable your Norton install, you'd suddenly be unprotected, so you HAVE to leave it on. Good grief, look at that delay.
 
I run two things at startup:
Internet connection
Steam

That's it.
Ofcourse all the little processes are given; explorer, svchost, etc.

This comparison is absolutely useless.
 
:|

I never had the idea Norton did me any good anyway.
*uninstalls*
 
hahah, yeah I've had lots of bad things happen to me with norton, especially slow performance.
 
giant384 said:
same but also i thought that more files on the computer effected boot time.
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No, only things the computer has to do anything with at startup will increase load time.

As to norton. Install AVG or Avast, start windows firewall, and grab adaware or spybot. Then uninstall Norton, take the disk to a clay pidgeon range and do the decent thing :D
 
Holy shit. I just uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2006 (live updates too). Windows is soooo fricking fast now. Yay I'm glad I did. Now I don't mind rebooting anymore.
 
Norton sucks. And always has D:
 
Lots of other stuffs slow systems down, other than Norton: Missing too many scheduled maintenance, IE add-ons, Spyware/adware, Fragged disks, Anti phishing/Anti data-executions programs, Too many orphaned registry keys, Large unkempt Windows' prefetch system.

Also my McAfee Internet suite did significantly slowed my system, until I uninstalled many Internet security options, but that was nothing close to Norton.

Good Luck.
 
of course other stuff does, its just nice to actually have a benchmark that has actual quantitative data to backup the claim.
 
Hazar said:
of course other stuff does, its just nice to actually have a benchmark that has actual quantitative data to backup the claim.
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What I wrote is the ABC, fundamental tweaking of PCs. It doesn't really need a diagram.
 
Link said:
No, only things the computer has to do anything with at startup will increase load time.

As to norton. Install AVG or Avast, start windows firewall, and grab adaware or spybot. Then uninstall Norton, take the disk to a clay pidgeon range and do the decent thing :D
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NOD32 uses less resources then those 2
 
I should show my mom this. She has Norton Antivirus, Mcaffe, Zone Alarm, Window's Firewall and AOL internet protection all running at once on her extrmely crappy computer (and then complains to me that its too slow, and refuses to remove these "vital safety programs")
 
Norton and Mcaffe at the same time? Don't they conflict? lol
And 2 software firewalls + AOL protection?
 
Does she have enough processing power left to actually surfs the nets?
 
Noooo!!! When your mother (Anyones mother, not speciffically theotherguys) asks for help with the pc, turn to her and say "ARGGGGHHHH NOOOOO OMG SAVE ME!!!!!!" Then run out of the house, drive/bus out of your street, go to the airport, leave the country, find a mountain, climb it, build a bunker, and hide in it with a sign on the door saying "Not in here, honest".

Its that or having your head explode trying to help her.
 
The comparison chart was for boot times right? Not the affect on Windows' performance in general? So it doesn't neccessarily have to mean that Norton will cause lots of slowdowns after the system has booted?

I have Norton Antivirus 2002, so I guess the result for it will be pretty close to that of 2006? I don't use the Antivirus actually, but I use Norton Internet Security. Can someone recommend me a good, free firewall, apart from Zone Alarm (which had an issue with CS:S last time I checked - game was lagging badly for a few seconds every two minutes).
 
I feel bad for anyone who doesn't trust themselves enough to not have a virus scanner or software firewall.

I use nothing but occasionally install ad-aware to do spyware scanning, and a hardware router for my firewall.

My system has so little on it in terms of applications and random crap, but it runs great.

If I screw up and compromise my computer, I smash my head on my desk, backup my stuff on my partitioned drives or external drive, format and start from scratch again.

No harm done. If I manage to give myself a concussion I know it's time for some changes.
 
Baal said:
I feel bad for anyone who doesn't trust themselves enough to not have a virus scanner or software firewall.

I use nothing but occasionally install ad-aware to do spyware scanning, and a hardware router for my firewall.

My system has so little on it in terms of applications and random crap, but it runs great.

If I screw up and compromise my computer, I smash my head on my desk, backup my stuff on my partitioned drives or external drive, format and start from scratch again.

No harm done. If I manage to give myself a concussion I know it's time for some changes.
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haha im the exact same as you in those terms
 
And I have the same video card as you!

*high five*
 
man good thing i dont run anti-virus software....hahahahahaha....anti virus software.....i just punch virus's in the teeth and they drop like bitches.:sniper:
 
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