hi huck
sorry so long to respond.
"NOrton SystemWorks..anyone love or hate it?"
love it. not an overstatement, either. keeps my pc's running smooth, great preventative maintenance, fixes lots of probs, provides virus protection, optimizes my system, just an all-around great set of tools.
"I installed it a while back and although it seems handy and informative it seems to drag my system down to a crawl on regular occasions. I really wasn't having any problems prior to..."
brings up some questions. but first let me say that i don't think nsw can drag down a system. even with a resource hit of, say, 5%-7%, that shouldn't make things crawl. UNLESS..... there are other things wrong.
so let me ask, have you run windoctor to find and fix windows problems? have you run speed disk (and the optimization wizard), to defrag and optimize your hard drive? if so, how frequently?
and what about your system specs, huck? how much ram? what operating system? do you monitor your system resources? do you know what percentage of free resources you have on boot up?
do you have nsw2001? nsw2000? how familiar are you with the suite?
i know i ask a lot of questions, but they matter. and maybe we can dig deeper and find out why your machine feels like it's crawling with nsw.
let me know
:)
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