Norton has many under running processes "forget the £ just dump it and you will need > This because just removing as normal wont get rid of all of it, as Dave says its a big system hog. 89 processes !!! , i have Vista Ultimate on a dual boot and processes running are 36 "i have removed all the MS junk" you need to thin down your processes see > Here and replace Norton with say Comodo Firewall and Avast A/V each are free and work very well with Vista >>>

Link > Free Firewall Protection Software AntiVirus Buffer Overflow Attack Computer Security Free Personal Firewall

Link > avast! antivirus software - computer virus, worm and Trojan protection by ALWIL Software

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