I would second the suggestion to abandon the Norton software. I was one of
Peter Norton's first customers back in the good old DOS days. His software
was solid and did a few really useful jobs in DOS and early MS Windows
versions.
After he sold his stuff to Symantec, the products began to show quirky
behavior, and after a couple of years became the source of many problems
with Windows 3.1, 95 and 98. I eventually began recommending to anyone who
would listen, that the first thing to do when having consistent crashes or
lockups was UNINSTALL all Symantec products. That advice fixed more
computers than I can count.
I haven't used a Symantec/Norton product since, and I haven't missed
them. For anti-virus protection, there are alternatives such as McAfee and
Kaspersky that have caused me less grief than the years of fighting with
Symantec.
Harry Selfridge
Encore Engineering Services and Products
At 05:57 PM 8/24/2005, you wrote:
Brooks,Bill wrote:
Does anyone have any data that would indicate that the slow performance of
Protel 99SE on a windows 2000 Professional based system could be related to
the Norton Antivirus program interaction with it?
Lately my system is really running slow... I have 99SE and DXP 2004 on my
system...
Any help much appreciated...
My favorite computer guru told me that half of his business was generated
by Norton products. Therefore, when I updated my computer with a new hard
drive, I did a fresh install of everything and left out Norton. While it
is hard to make a fair comparison and I made no measurements, I think that
it runs better and I have no plans to install Norton. For example, there
are fewer times where I am doing nothing and the hard drive is busy as a
beaver. Those disturb me.
Jim Walker
Walker Power Design, Inc.
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