Sluggish like it was with all that sidekick stuff - no. However I've come to the conclusion that slow windows splash screen load, clicking, desktop background disappearing, and the white pixels on the left top corner of my desktop are all related. Still haven't figured out what it is though.
I've booted in safe mode ran Nortan and found nothing. Opened up the processes running in safe mode and wrote them down. Booted in normal mode and disabled all processes that weren't in safe mode. Still didn't find nothing, this thing is very elusive.
yes it does sound like that, i've tried looking it up with no luck..is the pc itself better?
that's good, did you say you use norton? if so that may be one cause of the slow startup/performance as norton is a resource HOG and frankly in my opinion and others on this forum is a waste of an antivirus it doesn't even detect/block half the viruses it should be.. I would highly recommend AVG free its not a system memory hog and great on virus detection/protection of course its up to you coz i'm sure you paid for a year subscription of antivirus definitions from norton which also is a waste of money in my eyes let me know what you decide to do:)
Actually its a corporate edition and the updates come free. I don't run Norton on startup however. I only run it when I'm suspecting something. I however run Zone Alarm as suggested by one of your sticky posts.
Actually its a corporate edition and the updates come free. I don't run Norton on startup however. I only run it when I'm suspecting something. I however run Zone Alarm as suggested by one of your sticky posts.
ahhh ic, i still recommend AVG free over norton..even though its corporate ed. its norton which is crap no offense to symantec or anything back 5 or so yrs ago norton was awsome but obviously alot has changed since then and unfortunately 1 of those is norton changing into this bloated waste of AV its come to this day,however yes its important to have a firewall ZA is very good i might add only thing is if you disable zonealarm from starting automatically upon bootup it would most likely speed up your boot time GREATLY and to do this heres how: open ZA>click preferences tab then uncheck the box next to load zonealarm on startup click ok close out all windows and reboot see if that helps *but remember if you do this whenever you boot up to start ZA manually otherwise you'd be opening up your PC to hackers:eek3:
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