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Mark,

what issues are you having with Norton? Which version are you using? Did you get your drive copied? Its a pretty easy setup, and I can give you some phone help if you need.

Z-man

Hey Z,
Norton is just a memory hog, it starts to take over my resources doing who knows what. I think it's designed to protect idiots who would accept any download offered to them so it has to be extra extremely thorogh. It was Norton Antivirus 2007 but now it's history.

I have the external drive hooked up and doing daily back ups. I still need to partition it and ghost my HD to it. I have to buy a ghosting program and find an easy to use partitioning program, so it's currently on my round tuit list. I have a much lighter antivirus now and things are all cleaned up and running much better.
Mark

Running Norton Corporate 7.6 here without noting any slow down. Kinda old but works and it doesn't have all the extras. Does one thing well instead of twenty things poorly.

Enought about bloatware, I also use ghost 2003 as that's the last good version IMHO.

Also would recommend Hirens boot disc, best thing to have for such things.

John

The Norton protection products run well on a server for a network but poorly on a personal PC which is how mine is used. The corporate product is able to assume some knowledgeable IT person is administering it while the personal product assumes a moron is in charge. Perhaps accurately pretty often.

XP will partion it for you. Were you running just Norton AV? or Systems Works or Internet Security? I find the AV to be fine, but the Systems Works is a hog. Any version of Ghost should work fine. You can also try Acronis True Image, but get version 11 or higher.

just the AV - some file called CCApp I think was the problem.

I don't think the xp home version can do the partitioning, if it can I don't see where it is to use it.

When you put the XP cd in and boot from it, once it goes through setup, it gives you the option to partition the drive before you install the OS.

grab a copy of Hiren's Boot CD... it's got a lot of good disc partitioning utilities, among other handy stuff.

CCApp (CC=CommonClient) has had problems that Symantec has been fixing for years (I know this doesn't make sense, but that's how it is).

May I recommend that you upgrade to XP Pro, especially if this computer means anything business-wise. If you feel like experimenting, Microsoft offers several free installation/cloning tools that can work with XP Pro, including a so-called "Pre-Installation Environment" that gathers all the pertinent software. If you had Vista you could also use an included very advanced tool called DiskPart that does most of what special 3rd party partitioning software does, and is probably better optimized and safer.

Acronis is the way to go...

AVG is a good free antivirus program...

my .02 NORTON / Symantec are junk