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Re: Vista Ultimate is slow
<rmgalante@galaware.com> wrote in message
news:1187475409.939519.270610@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>I have a brand new notebook with a dual core 2.2GHz processor, 2G of
> memory and a 160G hard drive. It's an HP Pavillion. I turn it on. It
> takes 45 seconds to display the login prompt. I login. It takes 2 to 3
> minutes to display the windows welcome center.
>
> I look at the system configuration and I have dozens of services and
> startup programs running. I tried to remove all the Norton Anti-virus
> services and programs. But it still takes 2 minutes to display the
> windows welcome center. But that means it was taking 60 seconds to
> load the Norton Anti-virus stuff.
>
When you say you *tried* to remove all of the NAV stuff - did you succeed?
If not, that is most likely where your problem lies. Even if you remove
Anti-virus, Norton still has a load a 'security' stuff, which takes AGES to
start up. It took ages on XP too.
I am running Vista Ultimate on a 2-year old laptop (AMD Turion 64 ML-37 with
2GB RAM), and a 9-month old desktop (Core2Duo E6600 with 2GB RAM). Both run
Vista extremely well. Please please just ditch Norton. It really is, and has
been for a long time, the biggest pile of fetid dog turds imaginable. I use
Grisoft AVG for my Anti-virus, and a combination of my router's firewall and
Vista's firewall. That's also the same set-up I have used with XP for
several years now.
JW
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