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To: Lost1 who wrote (15061)	1/19/2001 2:08:34 AM
From: tanstfl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Hi Huck, I have found it to be a very useful program. However, I have disabled the background operation of anti-virus, e-mail anti-virus (poproxy), and Nprotect, to avoid the performance penalty and save memory. I also moved Systemworks out of the startup folder as it somes to double the time it takes the system to start up. Instead, I have Norton scheduler run antivirus and defrag at night and I run the other utilities manually on occasion since after the first time or two not many new problems crop up. However, I basically just use text email and I almost never introduce new disks or net software into the computer. I've had a couple virus's over the last four years (since they got popular) but they did no real damage and I got them from working on other people's computers (which I do frequently over my network). So it's a cost-benefit analysis, and my choice was to choose the performance and freedom from the conflicts the anti-virus programs introduce over always-on protection. Best, Steve

To: Lost1 who wrote (15061)	1/19/2001 2:43:28 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

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 :) mark