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I work tech support for an isp. I get many calls where they go out and buy
new pc's get them home and wonder why it takes so long for things to load or
why it takes a while to load a webpage when there are 15 or so icons down in
their tray. I have never like Nortons because of the process hog it is.
Dell, Hp and other companies get money for installing these vendor programs.
You have lots of power and memory to play with if you can safely unload the
borg garbage on it.
There is always msconfig, which works just as well in Vista as it does in XP
rmgalante@galaware.com> wrote in message
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>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.
>
> Also, the system is loading 970M of programs and data into memory.
> That is alot of stuff.
>
> So far my impression of this operating system is that it is too slow.
> My XP Pro system is far faster and it only has 1G of memory and a
> single processor.
>
> Also, my daughter just bought an Acer 5100 5674 system at Circuit
> City. It only has 1G of memory and a 1.6G dual core processor. It is
> running Vista Home Premium. It takes about 30 seconds to display the
> login prompt and 1.25 minutes to display the windows welcome center.
> It is not running Norton Anti-virus.
>
> So I spend all this money on serious hardware, and I am let down by
> the experience.
>