new computer takes to long to load

[cool dude]

hi i bought a new computer recently although it isn't really good. in the store they installed my firewall and norton antivirus. now when i turn on my computer all my programs work, execpt when i try to connect to the internet i have to wait for my norton antivirus and my firewall to load completely. this takes about 3 minutes to load and it's really anoying to sit there and wait for 3 minutes until i could go on the internet. is there any way to speed that up without damaging your computer.

[zomg]

uninstall norton!!!!

norton is the worst antivirus it sucks up resources, doesnt clean infected files or do anything for that matter, and auto protect doesnt do much

get another antivirus like AVG Free edition or Nod32(the best but not free) unless ura pirate

and get another firewall, i personally think xp sp2's firewall is sufficient but
but then im not to big on security
there are free firewall programs better than norton...

[Tony]

shadow master wrote:

uninstall norton

I second that. My computer came with Norton and wow, was that annoying Uninstalling it was one of the first things I did (seeing as the program thought that I would enjoy watching it bitch about everything rather than use the computer)

[cool dude]

i think norton antivirus isn't bad and deletes some viruses. you guys might have had an old version of norton, but i don't want to and will not uninstall norton antivirus. i think though that there is a way to fix that problem without uninstalling my whole norton antivirus plus i paid $60 for that! please tell me a way of fixing it without uninstalling it.

[zomg]

hmmm? there is no rest button on life so u cant undo the past...

try uninstalling and reinstalling it


and if that doesnt work just throw ur self off a building

[cool dude]

that still doesn't work my computer still loads very slowly. maybe it's not even the norton antivirus fault maybe it's because of something else.

[Tony]

cool dude wrote:

you guys might have had an old version of norton

Neah, I had the latest. It came with the computer I bought in september.

But that's not the point. You should look around the settings and see if there's anything you can tweak. Maybe norton scans something at load and hogs the system. I mean 3 minutes is just redicilous.

[wtd]

shadow master wrote:

try uninstalling and reinstalling it


and if that doesnt work just throw ur self off a building

Or just... you know... install Linux.

[Maverick]

Norton sucks ass, uninstall asap.

[cool dude]

k maybe norton antivirus does suck but i said i don't want to install it. and anyways i saw many computers have norton antivirus that are much worse computers than mine but they seem to load faster. even my ancienct computer seems to load now at the same speed. that is nuts because this is my new computer.
as well i highly doubt that is loads so slow because of my norton antivirus

[Andy]

its not norton's problem.. im running norton internet security and my comp boots in less than 30s, if i were u, i'd reformat, it'll help alot, but get partition magic first so u wont lose ur files o and it also could be some spyware/messed up registry problems

[Tony]

if you don't want to format (although it's always good), you can check your msconfig and unckeck all the programs you don't need at boot time

[Neo]

I dont think his problem is booting or loading programs upon boot up because he says when he connects to the internet he has to wait several minutes. Perhaps its a combination of your internet connection and your anti-virus. Maybe its doing some automatic update and is downloading update files and because your connection is slow you have to wait a long time.

[templest]

wtd wrote:

Or just... you know... install Linux.

Hah... you beat me to it. What I was going to say after reading fp:

templest wrote:

Or instead of uninstalling Norton, you can just uninstall Windows all together, Linux anyone?

[zomg]

but really, if u want to keep norton and ur whole computer in OEM form, you're gonna have either
1)check for spyware
2)check for a virus using an online virus scanner
3)get rid of certain services and startup programs in msconfig


if anyone can add to this list...

and if worse comes to worse just do what M$ Does (no dont try to take over the world ) Sue somebody