rmgalante@galaware.com

On Aug 19, 4:12 am, "Lang Murphy" <lang_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
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> > Also, the system is loading 970M of programs and data into memory.
> > That is alot of stuff.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > So I spend all this money on serious hardware, and I am let down by
> > the experience.
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> As others have responded... uninstall Norton and download a free AV program
> like AVG or Avast. You could probably benefit by scrubing some of the other
> crapware that came with your PC. I'm running Ultimate on two laptops here,
> one with 2GB RAM and one with 1.5GB RAM (this one) and do not experience the
> same type of performance issues. My son is running Ultimate on an older Dell
> XPS Gen 2 with 1GB RAM and Vista runs fine on his box. Big difference? All
> my installs were clean installs, no crapware...
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> Good luck,
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Well, thank you for all of your comments. I will try to address them
as I work to resolve this issue, which is not resolved.

My Windows Experience Index is 3.0. I see that 3D business and gaming
graphics perfomance is 3.0, and Desktop performance for Windows Aero
is 3.2. Everything else is 4.6 and above. How can I tell if my
graphics card shares the computer's memory?

With regard to Norton Anti-virus, I am not convinced that this alone
is the problem. Yes, I did reconfigure my system to remove all the
services and startup programs that Norton uses. But that knocked 60
seconds off a 3 minute time period. It still takes two minutes to view
the Windows Welcome Center after I login. That is very slow.

I will try uninstalling the Norton Anti-virus program. I will download
and install Avast. I'm using it on other systems, and it seems to
perform ok. I'll reply after I try these things.