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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Well, I did an experiment and shutdown both the Trend Micro suite and Outlook.
The speed of the machine returned to the level that I recall when it was originally delivered.
Word and Acrobat both load in about two seconds after the first attempt. Interesting that the first load was considerably slower.
So, clearly, the Trend Micro suite has the greatest influence on the speed.
Rather interesting because the machine has more than sufficient RAM at 1GB and it's still severely affected.
Oh well........
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A lot of antivirus and anti-spam/firewall software programs eat up considerable CPU resources, which in turn slows everything else down. So while the extra RAM helps, when the CPU is handling multiple requests it can slow things to a crawl. My PC is pretty high end, but when I open Thunderbird to check e-mail, I may as well forget doing anything else significant as it consumes a good portion of the CPU's resources.
P.S. Outlook? Have you tried Mozilla Thunderbird?
Norton is one of the worst. It seems each successive release is more pervasive and resource-hogging than the last. What kills me is that the corporate edition of Norton AV is fantastic. It hums along, barely taxing anything. Then you have the home edition....Grrr.
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