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| Thread ID: 51175 | 2004-11-13 23:44:00 | NAV 2003 & Win 98 | J ZEP (336) | Press F1 |
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| 291466 | 2004-11-13 23:44:00 | Im having probs with NAV 2003 on a Win 98 sys . Have checked the Sym . site & came up with a few things to try, however nothing seems to have helped :_| . Basically it just takes forever to load in the "sys tray", as in up to 10mins, during which time it won't open/start . It makes the rest of the system slow to respond or non responsive totally, during this period of time, in paticular - right clicks don't seem to respond? I know its been discussed here before in depth over the past few years, about NAV slowing up systems etc . . . however i have never personally come across it myself . I feel it is more to do with win 98 not liking it maybe? I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling it - clean removal first, using all removal tools, as well as manually removing any last traces of it - still to no avail . . . Disabling other startup items . The system itself isn't too badly specd - so i don't think it "should" be that - amd athlon XP1700+, 256mb ram, but only a 4 gig hdd . Does anybody have any suggestions that may help? Or is it a lost cause? A couple of the sym . articles pointed towards varying things, however none resolved anything - one that sounded closest to the prob was more related to NIS (IIRC) and the clock/time being wrong . Cheers |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 291467 | 2004-11-13 23:54:00 | yes, i had the same problem as you, p41.8A Ghz 256 ram,40gb Hdd, it took for ever to open up and it slowed everything down, i tried reinstalling it lots of times but with the same result, still slow, so i decided to use AVG which is way better plus its free :D. your 4gig? hdd is a concern, isnt it a tad too small, is it too full? or you could try a complete format and install it again? or get AVG |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 291468 | 2004-11-14 01:43:00 | have you got a network card? if so does it have an ip addy assigned to it? i have noticed if you don't have an ip assigned to it nortons takes ages to load which holds up everything. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 291469 | 2004-11-14 05:40:00 | > have you got a network card? if so does it have an ip > addy assigned to it? i have noticed if you don't have > an ip assigned to it nortons takes ages to load which > holds up everything. Tweak'e, yes it does have a network card, doesn't appear to be used though?. Can i just disable it like in Xp? Perhaps in Device Manager and disable in the users hardware profile? Would that help? I am not very familiar with the Networking side of things unfortunately let alone in win 98:|. Or is there somewhere else or something else that would do it better? Any help most appreciated :-). Thanks. Prescott, no plenty of room on the hdd, nearly a gig left, surprisingly,lol. I would really like to stay with NAV for her if poss, so as she can get the liveupdates, which AVG free doesn't offer, also now the newer version is out might pay to wait till a few bugs get sorted perhaps... no doubt i will come across them on my system using AVG ;-). |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 291470 | 2004-11-14 05:49:00 | Hi J ZEP :) I had a problem with NAV 2003 and a WinME box ages ago with similar symptoms. I found that it was clashing during startup with the Firewall (a non-Norton's product). Have you looked at the startup list and tried removing individual programs from starting up automatically one at a time - see if this makes a difference to how NAV loads. Worth a shot. My work around was not to have the Firewall load automatically in the end but that was on a dialup connection where the situation was not so risky. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 291471 | 2004-11-14 06:30:00 | assign an ip addy. www.wown.com | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 291472 | 2004-11-14 07:20:00 | Thanks for the link tweak'e, have had a go at assigning one, however doesn't appear to have made any difference unfortunately, but i will reread the page again later and make sure i did it right etc... just to be sure. Jen - yes, unfortunately i have tried the startup list removal too :-(, no firewall either... Thanks for the replies :-) |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 291473 | 2004-11-14 08:43:00 | I Have not long put NAV 2004 on my 2gh/40gig system and it too takes a long time to load, not 10mins but 1-1.5 min, I have tried turning of auto protect at boot up, and it loads quicker, but have to turn it on manually afterwards, which loads slightly quicker. Had NAV 02 before which loaded really quick. | monies (6310) | ||
| 291474 | 2004-11-14 08:45:00 | I Have not long put NAV 2004 on my 2gh/40gig XP system and it too takes a long time to load, not 10mins but 1-1.5 min, I have tried turning of auto protect at boot up, and it loads quicker, but have to turn it on manually afterwards, which loads slightly quicker. Had NAV 02 before which loaded really quick. | monies (6310) | ||
| 291475 | 2004-11-14 08:51:00 | Is this NAV as part of Internet Security?? or NAV by itself?? If Internet security open IE and tools/internet options/advanced. go to security 3rd one down untick it. This can stuff things up with NIS. If NAV by itself. Disable Auto protect. This can also slow things down or stuff things up that u install. It isnt needed just to run in the background. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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