Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Symmantec Norton Systemworks Professional

  • 01-03-2004 11:19PM
    #1
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭


    Hey everyone,

    just installed SystemworksPro on a WinXP system (2GHz CPU/256MB RAM/80GB Disk).

    I've noticed an awful lot of disk activity to the point where the HDD is never idle - i know this is because of the constant scanning that Systemworks does.

    What would be the best settings to ensure reasonable protection while lowering the amount of HDD activity just a little bit?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    mickeyboymel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭mickeyboymel


    Check each application individually to see what you require, then prevent the ones you do not need from loading with windows. I found it very hard on resources and it also likes to have everything loaded at start up

    Personally I do not use the following

    System Doctor, Password Manager, Goback , Connection Keep Alive

    You can prevent everything from loading until needed in the options menu, and also disable the automatic live update and task/scan schedulers and do manual scans and updates once a week (liveupdates usually released on Wed)

    Sign up for email alerts from Symantech for critical virus alerts in case you miss any liveupdates "midweek"

    Edit: Using Windows System Restore and Norton Go Back at the same time effect the preformance....decide which is best and disable the other

    Im sure someone a bit more technically experienced can advise you better here, but thats my experience of this product


Advertisement
Advertisement