[thelist] Debugging a New PC

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Norton Utilities doesn't normally do that to CPU usage
(SETI at Home does - it takes otherwise unused cycles),
although NAV might. I have NU running on my home laptop,
and if SETI isn't running, it typically runs at around 10% of
CPU capacity (PIII 600).

Don't know about RAM - I only have 64MB on that machine,
and do need more. It falls over a lot less since the most recent
CFStudio update.

McAfee is also a bit of a resources hog.

Cheers
Martin





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>  First disable any of the automated Norton utilities. In
>  my experience the app is a total resource hog (and buggy
>  as well). In fact I would basically disable (and
>  uninstall0 everything except for the Anti-virus program.
>  I had SystemWorks installed on my old development
>  machine and it was a total nightmare.

Interestingly enough (and I don't know if this is final or not),
removing Norton Utilities has dropped my CPU usage from 98% to about
10%, when idle. System resources went from 93% usage, to 32%, and my
whole system shows 128 megs of RAM.




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