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Help Please Computer experts! 2 Years, 5 Months ago  
Hey,

I recently got Norton Antivurs and Internet Protection 2006.

However the newest feature of Nortons is the Nortons Protection Center, as a semi-advanced user I olike to turn automatic updates off and feel okay bout that coz they just give me grief, however Nortons Protection Center keeps popping up telling me it is a risk etc. It also does other pointless annoying things like telling you to perform scans every now and again presuming that you don't know how to manage your own computer.

Anyway, I have found this on the internet about disabling the NPC, do you guys think this is safe to do?

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Re: Help Please Computer experts! 2 Years, 5 Months ago  
if you already ignore all of the things it tells you anyways, you won't be missing out on anything by taking it out of the startup

anyways, that just means it wont start up when the computer starts....you can run it like a normal program whenever you want


it's true though, those things devour your resources

while we're on this topic, if you didn't know already....here's a good way to boost your start up time (for windows, except 2000...i think....any other version of windows should work)

go to start>run> and type in "msconfig" without the quotes obviously

click on the startup tab, and look through the list

if you don't know what it is, don't uncheck it because it could be something that windows uses...however if it's a game, or media player, or something like that, you can uncheck it, and it wont load up when windows starts anymore, saving you time

 
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Re: Help Please Computer experts! 2 Years, 5 Months ago  
Cheers for the advice, I am now just wondering whether the rest of nortons will still function properly?
 
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Re: Help Please Computer experts! 2 Years, 5 Months ago  
I can tell you that the last 2 Norton editions have not been very compatible with WindowsXP (slowness, freezing up, etc), and it only improved when certain Norton features were disabled. Soooooooo. . . our offices switched to McAfee. .. I also switched to McAfee here at home for the same reasons.
 
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I can tell you that the last 2 Norton editions have not been very compatible with WindowsXP (slowness, freezing up, etc), and it only improved when certain Norton features were disabled. Soooooooo. . . our offices switched to McAfee. .. I also switched to McAfee here at home for the same reasons.


in my opinion, McAfee > Norton

but as long as you've got something protecting your computer, you're good to go
 
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