[Hameyo]

Oh yeah I almost forgot, mphenterprises the yellow box in my sysem tray is Norton.

[mphenterprises]

Hi Hameyo. Not the Norton notification box. I am referring to the yellow shield to the right of it. Here is a screen shot of what I mean:







It may no longer be there but it was there when you took the screen shot earlier. If it is still there, I would suggest you allow whatever update its waiting on to proceed.

[Hameyo]

The updates are done. Thanks

[smax013]

Hameyo said:

Would dog hairs and dust cause this problem? Just another thought.

Not likely...but dust and dog hairs are not good in general, so regardless, you should clean out every once and a while. A can of compressed air to blow things out usually does the trick.

[lilxkid24]

You also might want to remove Adobe Reader 9 and replace it with http://www.foxitsoft...df/rd_intro.php Foxit Reader. It is a much more lightweight application than Adobe Reader and uses 95% less resources. If you want to startup faster. Go to start>run>type "msconfig" then go to startup tab> and untick everything there besides your Antivirus. Then Apply ok and restart your computer.

[mphenterprises]

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You also might want to remove Adobe Reader 9 and replace it with http://www.foxitsoft...df/rd_intro.php Foxit Reader. It is a much more lightweight application than Adobe Reader and uses 95% less resources.

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I could have sworn I saw that somewhere. :D

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Adobe Reader is a very resource intentsive application. Many within this Community recommend using the lighter FoxIt Reader which is accessible here

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If you want to startup faster. Go to start>run>type "msconfig" then go to startup tab> and untick everything there besides your Antivirus. Then Apply ok and restart your computer.
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Hi Lilxkid. It is not always a safe suggestion to advise a member to disable all startup items except the security applications. If one of those startup applications are required, disabling it could adversly affect either the startup or at the very least an application.

[snorg]

lilxkid24 said:

If you want to startup faster. Go to start>run>type "msconfig" then go to startup tab> and untick everything there besides your Antivirus. Then Apply ok and restart your computer.

I agree with what MPH said, in fact I would disable some of the security applications like antivirus, SuperAntiSpyware, ZoneAlarm from start up, and then activate those manually when I need them like before I go online. Thats what I used to do with my older slower PC.

[snorg]

Hi Hameyo

I see you have Norton Internet Security, and that norton has got 3 things in your startup, thats probably whats slowing you down.
You should stop norton from starting anything at startup. You can active norton yourself after startup.
Better yet, get rid of norton and replace it with the free versions of Avast antivirus, SuperAntiSpyware, and ZoneAlarm.

[CentiZen]

Holy crap dude! That's ALOT of programs.



You can use this free tool to stagger the startup of these programs:

www.r2.com.au/software.php?page=2&show=startdelay

And you should remove a few entries that you dont need from msconfig.

Also, I dont think that you have to hard drives, I think that you have a 160GB drive that has been partitoned into two 80GB sectors, its a common practice for many laptop manufacturers to do that, its been like that on every laptop I have ever purchased.

[Hameyo]

CentiZen I'm only telling you what it says next to the logo. "Astonish. Fast and easy backup with two 80GB hard drives." At the time I bought my laptop I don't think that laptops were over120 GB hard drives. I just don't remember.

[smax013]

There are laptops that do offer the ability to have two actual hard drives (not two partitions on one hard drive). Generally, they are 17" laptops...or if a 15" laptop, you might be able to replace the optical drive with a second hard drive.

And there are third party entities that provide kits to replace the optical drive with a second hard drive. I know they exist for MacBook Pros...I assume there are similar kits for various Windoze laptops.