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Although an early user of Norton's utilities - as well as
McAfee, who was first out of the gate in the A/V arena - I found that, over the
years, both packages have become quite aggressive in the battle for my
processors and RAM, to the extent that I always request they NOT be included in
the PC packages my clients get.
A better value is found in V-com's Fix-It Pro 7 suite, not a
lot of cash, and one gets three licenses per purchase, despite it being under
$50. The A/V is Trend's in the suite, and it's well-mannered. I can
record without taking it out of the startup, and if I do both sound and audio I
can halt parts or all of the checking without restarting. I bought it for
my own setup here (three PCs and a Laptop), and recommended it to my parents,
and siblings' families. My PC clients have it on recommendation. No
complaints in over four years of implementations. v-com.com sells it
direct.
Big culprit on the Hogging the Startup Department -
Hewlett-Packard's drivers are fine, but those #$* utilities programs as well as
the badly-mannered, malfunctioning update module are worth unchecking in the
Startup section.
By the way, rather than going through MSCONFIG one might use
the better-functionality of the Tools section of Spybot S&D, which can be
got for free at http://www.spybot.info/ - though this
guy deserves the money for having pioneered awareness and prevention-elimination
of Spyware/Adware alone.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2007 17:57
PM
Subject: Re: Startup Apps for Laptop
Loopers - streamline performance, etc
Another key item there is just how much of a hog the norton
applications are, and how hard it is to properly contain their impact on
performance of your machine. I'd recommend Nod32.
On 10/11/07, Krispen
Hartung <khartung@cableone.net>
wrote:
>>
Some of us, including myself in the past, have used msconfig (you
just
>> run this from Start and Run). You can deselect any of these
and prevent
>> them from running at startup. However, I recently
read in some tech
>> forums that msconfig is recommended primarily
for testing,
>> troubleshooting, etc...not as a permanent solution
to altering your
>> startup process. The claim is that this is not
an efficient way to end
>> the processes and does so
incompletely.
>
> Actually, it prevents the processes from ever
being started.
> Perhaps what they meant was that it didn't catch
every single process
> that could start (which I think may be the
case).
Yes, that is obviously what it does, as indicated by the
processes not
appearing at re-boot
> Surely you can do an
MSCONFIG setup, and then either use it or not.
> At least that gives
you 2 different startup configs.
> ( with a choice on startup
)
Yes, but once you go back to your standard startup and reboot, and
then
want to go back to your performance configuration, you have to
re-deselect
the processes again and reboot. You cannot save the msconfig
configuration.
But, more importantly, the articles are not recommending
msconfig as the
approprieate way to do this. As I said, it is recommended
as a way to
troubleshoot, etc, not as a permament startup configuration
solution. I
don't
have the articles on hand, but you could Google the
topic and find them.
Kris
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---Miles Ward
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