Computer performance: S.O. or Antivirus slowing it down ?
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
The simplest way of testing it is: 1. Measure things: make a small program that opens & close a big application, e.g., Word. 2. Uninstall the antivirus and measure things on both machines before & after antivirus install. 3. If you do not want to uninstall the AV, at least disable its on-access protection. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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The simplest way of testing it is: 1. Measure things: make a small program that opens & close a big application, e.g., Word. 2. Uninstall the antivirus and measure things on both machines before & after antivirus install. 3. If you do not want to uninstall the AV, at least disable its on-access protection. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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bevpet wrote: i'd target the Anti-virus first, then disable NortonNoWorks Actually, nothing like a machine with only the OS running. All those "we will make Windows better" software do is taking up memory, CPU and disk. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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The simplest way of testing it is: 1. Measure things: make a small program that opens & close a big application, e.g., Word. 2. Uninstall the antivirus and measure things on both machines before & after antivirus install. 3. If you do not want to uninstall the AV, at least disable its on-access protection. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
Sure I've tried disabling on-access protection, the result is the same. Uninstall and reinstalling AV isn't just to click a button and is very very suck :sigh: GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
I'd install antispyware software... maybe it can speed up your computer? David
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
Stop visiting all those p0rn sites at home and getting all that spyware. :-) Regards, Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation
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I'd install antispyware software... maybe it can speed up your computer? David
I hope not :laugh: GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
Mine is almost the other way round re: my desktop and my laptop. Desktop: Win XP, NIS 2004 - no noticeable effect from AV. Laptop: Win2k, NIS 2004 - significant slowing effect from AV, especially on boot-up. Win2k is slow to boot anyway but NIS makes it much slower. Kevin
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
Do you have real time scanning on the home computer ? That slows things down. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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Do you have real time scanning on the home computer ? That slows things down. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
Sure...it's disabled. Thanks anyway :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
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Hello, my home and office computer hardware are basically the same: P4 2.8, 512MB, Sata HD ...but I have noticed great performance differences, my office computer is the fastest :^) My home computer seems to have a delay to launch applications, something like a "latency". There are meaningful software differences: Home computer: Windows XP, Norton antivirus 2004 and firewall Office computer: Windows 2000, VirusScan antivirus and firewall Probably the software is the responsible to slow it down, which one would you change first ? Thanks for any tip :) GuimaSun www.nexsun.com.br NEXSUN TechZone
Windows XP has lots of great improvements over Windows 2000... but Windows 2000 is going to run faster in general. Try this: In Windows XP turn off all the fancy screen crap: ie, restore the Windows 2000 interface ditching all the pretty movement, fancy start menu, etc. and set both to no background. You'll see that Windows 2000 is still generally faster, but you will also see an improvement in Windows XP with these settings.
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bevpet wrote: i'd target the Anti-virus first, then disable NortonNoWorks Actually, nothing like a machine with only the OS running. All those "we will make Windows better" software do is taking up memory, CPU and disk. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Mine is almost the other way round re: my desktop and my laptop. Desktop: Win XP, NIS 2004 - no noticeable effect from AV. Laptop: Win2k, NIS 2004 - significant slowing effect from AV, especially on boot-up. Win2k is slow to boot anyway but NIS makes it much slower. Kevin
:) ofcourse you will have to take drive speeds into account. the 4200 or 5400 rmp (2.5 inch) disk in a laptop is slooow (a 5400 2.5 inch disk performs like a 4200 3.5 inch disk just look at the access and troughtput figures)
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:) ofcourse you will have to take drive speeds into account. the 4200 or 5400 rmp (2.5 inch) disk in a laptop is slooow (a 5400 2.5 inch disk performs like a 4200 3.5 inch disk just look at the access and troughtput figures)
Yes, my desktop is significantly faster than my laptop. And XP is significantly faster to boot up than Win2k. But on Win2k I could notice the boot-up time immediately before and immediately after installing NIS, and it was significant. Kevin