Windows XP Optimization Guide

[FryingWeesel]

I stopped using Norton along time ago and Never Have looked back.

so had I, but never ASSume that an app that sucked in the past cant be great today, As a tech of some years experiance(over 12 years) I have seen apps go from great to CRAP and from CRAP to GREAT.

and in the case of norton, from great to crap to utter crap, to total and utter crap, and now its back to being great!!!!

WileE and a couple others convinced me to look into norton/symentec SEP (2k9/sep11) after looking at 10+ reviews, I decided to try it, honestly was SHOCKED it even runs on crappy OLD systems without having any noticed performance impact!!!

it uses less memory then nod32, kaspersky or any other AV i have tested in the past 5 years, honestly the change is SHOCKING.

That's not entirely true. Some programs require you to have a pagefile, or else they just won't run correctly.

photoshop, and a STACK of other apps wont run or wont run correctly without page file, i keep telling people that, hell i got games that wont run or run VERY POORLY without page file, even on 6-8gb system ram....sucks.

 

[Wile E]

I stopped using Norton along time ago and Never Have looked back.

09 is actually better than both Nod32 and Kaspersky. They rewrote it from the ground up, and did it right this time. I expect it to be bloated crapware again in 3 years or so. lol.

 

[FryingWeesel]

yeah, they wont update it they will just pile more SHIT ontop of it till it crumbles like happened in the past :/

 

[NeotonicDragon3]

When i got tired of free programs really screwing up my computers. Avast, and AVG didnt do anything. it gave me false alerts, and it killed my old Gateway.. ughh
i will never use AVG or Avast again. it never protected my computers!!

So i began using NOD32 in 2006 and refreshed the trial untill 2008. then i bought it.. now i am at V4.