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To: Ally who wrote (29617)	10/14/2002 5:58:16 PM
From: jw	Respond to of 110653

Ally, I have an old 486 connected to my LAN thru Cable Modem, Router/KVM switch and I thought it worked pretty slick as a spare. Installed Norton System Works 2002, ran a virus check, OK. But then I noticed the 486 came to a creeping slow pace. Man it was slow. Deleted System Works and it picked up speed, Not bad at all for backup. grisoft.com, Thinking about d/loading this and see if same thing happens. Regards, /jw

To: Ally who wrote (29617)	10/14/2002 6:11:37 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Ally Norton System Works is a big resource hungry program. It has several different pieces to it so if you don't use them you shouldn't have them loaded if all you use Norton for is anti-virus protection. I have used SystemWorks 2001 and 2002 but finally decided the resource usage and the seemingly constant problems with updates going bad and disks that needed to be made weren't worth the aggravation once I got Windows XP. It's been basically trouble free so I've removed Norton and now rely on less voracious substitutes for what Norton did for me.