When I said you can take everything out except your security programs - I meant all your other programs - not the Microsoft operating system or the Nvidia Compatible Windows drivers - I'm sure you knew what I meant, but I didn't want to seem imprecise. SIW2
On most laptops, the touch-pad driver will need to run, only if you're going to use the touch-pad. If you're going to use some other form of mouse, then the touch-pad driver can also be DE-Selected.
That's the "Synaptics Pointing Device Driver".
Again, I want to stress, that Norton is a huge resource hog and not even a very good Anti-Virus program. I once took 151 viruses off of a little PC that just had an update from Norton.
That included ONE that Norton said it found but could not remove.
My first step in improving the performance of any PC, for one of my customers, is to remove Norton and replace it with AVG.
AVG is a much better AV program, won't load down your PC and it's FREE!
Performance will take a huge jump in the positive direction.
I work about 16 internet forums, not just this one, and in every one you'll find people saying the very same thing I'm saying here.
My own "ServicesStop.bat" file include 22 Services that can be either disabled all together or just put into "Manual" mode.
In either case, those services are removed from the 'Boot' process and greatly speed up that process. Then the overall performance improves as well.
I've run this batch file on the two Vista systems I have here with very good results and NO loss of functionality.
I wrote a similar batch file for XP several years ago and improved XP's performance significantly.
Cheers Mates!
The Shadow
