Curious on Startup Speed

Starting Up

Published on June 27, 2007 By Rvanbel In OS Customization

My system is AMD Athlon 64 3000 Venice, 2 gb ram, 2- 7600 GT Nvidia cards & 3 hard drives. My question is on startup what is the average startup time. I'm running XP Pro and object desktop. Also, I'm running zone alarm firewall and Norton anti-virus. The system is running rather slow and I wanted to see if it's due to Norton. I have Adaware, Spybot & Windows Defender which I run once a week. I keep only the necessary programs that need to operate on startup, but it seems the system is still slow. Does the system take longer because it has 3 hard drives to scan through on startup or is it mostly a norton speed issue?

Comments

Fuzzy Logic

on Jun 27, 2007

I dumped Norton because of this and other issues. I now use ZA security suite and all is fine

AzDude

on Jun 27, 2007

Norton is a big resource HOG ! Switch ...

i use FREE Avast .....

Rvanbel

on Jun 27, 2007

Thats what I heard. Zone Alarm's Internet Security has been rated pretty good and it isn't a performance hog. That norton is just strictly anti-virus and still takes forever to let the system startup

Rvanbel

on Jun 27, 2007

Avast? Which anti-virus is that?

PurrBall

on Jun 27, 2007

Avast? Which anti-virus is that?

Avast.

You should also try AVG free.

Rvanbel

on Jun 27, 2007

I have just looked up zone alarm anti-virus and it looks pretty good. I also reviewed the zone alarm internet security. I already have adaware, spybot and windows defender, would the internet security be overkill?

Philly0381

on Jun 27, 2007

Just my personal opinion, yes. With adaware, spybot and windows defender you have the basics covered. I run the pograms you do along with spyware blaster. I also use zone alarm firewall.

You will get different personal preferences as to which software to run. The important thing is protect you computer from unwanted and uninvited guests as in virus, adware and trojans getting in.

Here's another piece of information that I picked up, all in one security programs sound nice but if you read the reviews usually they show they don't do aa good of a job as stand alone componets.

warreni

on Jun 27, 2007

Actually, I've been using ZoneAlarm's security suite for several years now, and I have no complaints. It doesn't chew up too many system resources, and it works well. Also, the suite has uniformly gotten great reviews and it's not ludicrously priced.

Rvanbel

on Jun 27, 2007

Ya I noticed that about security programs. I had Norton Internet Security last year and had to dump it and go with just anti-virus. Currently I have zone alarm firewall and norton anti-virus. I have had to re-install norton about 3 times since I installed it in december, because it kept saying that my subscription ran out. I think I'm just going to go with Zone Labs Anti-Virus and Zone Alarm Firewall. I just want a simple set up that does it's job.

Rvanbel

on Jun 27, 2007

I've seen that on cnet.com, but I have mixed feelings.

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