[thelist] Debugging a New PC

[Frank]

>>  First disable any of the automated Norton utilities. In
>>  my experience the app is a total resource hog (and buggy
>>  as well).

>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.

I was wrong, more detail. Looking at the system monitor I see that 
CPU usage is maxed out at 100% again, the allocated memory is at 183, 
but the unused physical memory shows that I have 36 megs free.

Further ideas?
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Frank Marion                      Loofah Communications
frank at loofahcom.com               http://www.loofahcom.com