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| 93335 | 2002-10-27 00:28:00 | A friend of mine has windows 98 on her computer, she has had trouble with it going really really slow, It wouldn't let me do a disfrag but I have noticed she only has norton 2001. Would it be better for her to get rid of Norton 2001 and down load something like AVG? | Mandy Fisher (2108) | ||
| 93336 | 2002-10-27 00:33:00 | provided it is kept upto date it will be fine. 2001 is not very old. with defrag try doing it in safe mode or look in the faq's at the top of the page. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93337 | 2002-10-27 00:37:00 | Probably, because the norton 2001 will be out of date and need to buy a new subscription (i think), so a new free AV program would be good. I've heard pretty good "stuff" from AVG users. I don't understand why it will not defrag?:| If it will start but find it hard to continue you probably need to shutdown a few things that are interfering with the processes. Is that the case... does it start? rads |
raddersnz (684) | ||
| 93338 | 2002-10-27 01:55:00 | >>because the norton 2001 will be out of date and need to buy a new subscription When you buy a copy of Norton you are actually paying for 2 seperate parts - the program and the virus definitions subscription. For the first year (or 3 months if it's the el cheapo sold with some machines) the virus definition list is kept up-to-date. ie you can download updates to the list on a regular basis. At the end of the term you need to start paying the annual subscription to continue to update the virus list. The sub is something like $10 (bought my copy earlier this year so haven't had to pay the sub yet). The 2003 program will have extra features - but there's no need to race out and buy it just cause it's out. My previous version was version 4. (ver 5 and 2001 preceeded 2002) I upgraded for a few reasons. 1. They started charging the annual sub so I had reached a point where I had to pay something anyway and 2. The features had changed enough for it to be warranted (things like automatic downloads). I've used Norton for years and like it so I will be paying the sub when it's due, but I won't be upgrading the program itself. If you don't pay the sub your computer is still protected against the known EXISTING viruses but not any new ones. Changing to AVG is a personal choice. I just question how long people can stay in business if they don't charge for a service or product. People who spend their days working at updating programs still need money to feed the cat. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 93339 | 2002-10-27 02:26:00 | when I tried doing a disc defrag it said that it was locked by a disc utility and asked me to block it. We held down F5 while booting up and this made no difference. The disc defrag is still coming up saying it is locked. | Mandy Fisher (2108) | ||
| 93340 | 2002-10-27 02:30:00 | Boot the computer into Safe Mode and do the defrag from there. To get into Safe Mode, reboot and as the computer restarts start pressing F3, at some point you should get a Dos like menu, select Safe Mode, usually number three. If a defrag has not been done for some time it could be painfully slow and may restart the defrag several times during the process. As for Nortons 2001, providing it is upto date and not about to expire I would suggest you keep using it. If it has expired or is just about expired you have two choices, pay about $40 for a sub renewal which will give you another 12 months of live update or upgrade the whole program for about $80NZ. Second choice is to download a free AV program such as AVG, if you go the AVG path I would suggest you change the number of days which it checks for updates. |
duckyduck (197) | ||
| 93341 | 2002-10-27 02:33:00 | Heather I understand the fee is now about $40 a year instead of the $10 it has been but you can also upgrade to NAV2003 for $80NZ including p&p though that could change by the time you need to consider doing it. | duckyduck (197) | ||
| 93342 | 2002-10-27 02:35:00 | Mandy, do you have any idea what this disk utility is? If not have a look at the program list and see if there is something in there. Maybe also have a look in Run>msconfig>startup and see what program(s) may be loading at startup. Knowing what this disk utility is will help you in (un)blocking it. | duckyduck (197) | ||
| 93343 | 2002-10-27 02:56:00 | In answer to your initial question about Nortons slowing the PC down, the answer is a most definite "Yes" and you would be better to run something "lighter" such as AVG as you suggested. The main thing is to keep the definitions up to date! I've tried running Norton's on an older machine and it does hog the resources and makes a noticeable difference to the PCs operating speed. |
O M Hubbard (1473) | ||
| 93344 | 2002-10-27 04:22:00 | Mandy, I started to have problems doing a thourough scandisc, even in safe mode and after closing all known applications, until I downloaded a program called EndItAll, from Ziff Davies Media Inc. Should be able to find this through a Google search, this should enable you to close any hidden applications that are preventing your defrag. | Danger (287) | ||
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