pashley pro Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 hi there people im trying to speed up my pc im told that norton utilities would help is this true and is it really worth getting and ive also been told that this ad aware programme would help can some one please help me out and and try and explain what they do sorry to be abit retarted but im not very good with computers. thanks for the help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 I'd be VERY surprised if Norton helped speed up your computer at all. In fact I'd put money on the fact that it would slow it down. Download Adaware and Spybot S&D. Update them and then run them. Delete anything they find. Should help a fair bit if you've never used it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie456_the2nd Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Are you using windows xp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pashley pro Posted January 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 yer i use windows xp home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 I have Norton System works and its not that bad at speeding it up, I just use the de-frag thing with it. But the new microsoft anti spyware beta thing is very good, you can get it from Here It will remove spyware which will speed up your pc. Also stopping programs running that you dont need will also help. In the run dialog, use type in msconfig, if your not a confident windows user or services.msc (i think) if you are, and turn off a few things that you dont use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BI-KING Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Any virus software wiil probly slow it down but does stop you getting bugs so it is worth having, You will need some RAM to speed it up and it does work as I have just got some more put in my pc its alot faster and it was only £10 of ebay :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 Norton is notorious for eating up resources..... How much RAM do you have? What speed processor? I used to run NAV in XP (when I had it..), and then switched to Kaspersky. I did some back-ground reading (we all got to start somewhere!) on registry tweaking, and tuned XP beyond belief..... :: Phaze :: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deagledaddy Posted February 1, 2005 Report Share Posted February 1, 2005 A question... how long has this installation of Windows XP been used for... My suggestion is a nice lil reformat, always gets the biiiiiiiiiach running smooth again (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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