Was there any mention of a plugin or update for 360 to add toolbar support for Outlook 2010 x64, I made a rule that anything marked with Norton Anti spam in the subject gets put in the junk folder but it would be nice to have full Anti Spam support.
devnulllore wrote:Was there any mention of a plugin or update for 360 to add toolbar support for Outlook 2010 x64, I made a rule that anything marked with Norton Anti spam in the subject gets put in the junk folder but it would be nice to have full Anti Spam support.
Sorry to report that nothing has been mentioned about doing anything to support x64 at this time. I would anticipate that as the applications become more common and the user base grows larger something will be done. With that many 'ifs' I doubt anyone would be willing to make a guess as to what and when.
This was posted in 2008. It is now November 2010 and I now have the Norton 360 loaded on a Win 7 64bit Professional and the plugin still does not enable. Hope this is soon forthcoming.
Claude
A Computer Werks
This is also a cause of Microsoft's suggestions with the 64-bit Office version. They do not recommend the x64 editions for every-day home-usage, as many plugins can have issues with it, like the Norton Antispam toolbar.
MS only recommends x64 for the special jobs where it can be good, like with very very large Excel sheets, and Access databases.
Yes but some of us, my Tech Support Group and user base included, has been waiting years for some small crumb of a plug in for x64 support. We need to use the x64 version of Office and come on, we're not asking for the world on a silver platter just a small Outlook add on to get part of a fairly expensive but classic program to work as advertised. We x64 users are people too!!! I don't care what Microsoft says! 
Dev,
You are absolutely right. My company supports many small P2P business networks and home based businesses and we have ben using NIS and 360 products for years. Lately, with the availability of the new 64 bit Intel boards and abundant MS software running W7 PRO, we have been recommending they go to the 64 bit software for the increased RAM memory capacities. This one little toolbar is the only nagging issue that we are having with an otherwise line of products.
Claude
Hi,
I'm getting confused here. I've been running W7x64 since I upgraded. I've also been running Office in x32 so that I can access all of the neat toys I've come to enjoy and depend on. I'm guessing that I'm missing the point somewhere along the line. Please enlighten me so I can help promote x64 usage and getting more programs to run in x64 mode.
stay well and surf safe
Dick,
We have been promoting the 64 bit office version due to it's robust utilization of memory and disk utilization. I have not tried the W7 PRO 64 bit with 32bit apps deliberately installed. I would think that this would reduce its performance and I do not know how the 32 bit format data would store on a 64 bit NTFS disk, would the same message take 2X the space as the 64bit version?? The 64bit version of Excel and Access really pop with 8 GB of ram.
If you have really explored the 32 bit office products on a 64bit OS, I would really like to hear your thoughts.
Thanks,
Claude
If you notice a performance increase in 64-bit Office over 32-bit Office, I'd question your hardware.
I mean, it's Office!
I heeded the warning and installed 32-bit Office on Win7x64. Everything is instant on my main PC; it is fast on the beta box listed below, instant when ReadyBoosted. My Norton plug-in works fine.
Office!? Frames-per-second? whah?
Thanks for the reply to my question.
When running Excel or Access with large amount of data, are you able to utilize the full amount of ram when running the 32 bit Office?
Claude
No, every 32-bit Office program can access only max 2GB of memory even on a 64-bit system (as far as I know), and 64-bit ones can access many more.
64-bit Office version has this as a pro vs the 32-bit variant, plus many extra things like you can open larger files as well with Excel and Access (I think 2GB large databases tops).
Also it opens and runs a bit faster, but on nowdays machines this difference can not be seen as both version if really fast on 2+ cores with many GBs of RAM.
This is a good article about the differences: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681792.aspx#BKMK_DeploymentConsiderations
I am bothered by the requirement for justification. AFAIC, I paid for Norton 360 for my company, my company uses Office 64-bit, and N360 should support that in this day and age. 64 bit isn't a question of IF or WHEN, it is NOW the standard. Anything less, to me, is bait and switch... RG
Techmate wrote:I am bothered by the requirement for justification. AFAIC, I paid for Norton 360 for my company, my company uses Office 64-bit, and N360 should support that in this day and age. 64 bit isn't a question of IF or WHEN, it is NOW the standard. Anything less, to me, is bait and switch... RG
Welcome,
I don't see any bait and switch in the release notes of the product. It says x64 is not supported.
Getting too far ahead of the curve can be very dangerous. Better to follow a few steps behind so that your product remains on solid ground. The bleeding edge is never been a safe zone.
Try running Microsoft's PowerPivot Denali with multiple related 100+ MB tables and charts using Excel x32. Excel can be used for much more than mailing lists and simple monthly sales totals.
By the way, Bill Gates once said that most programs were 64kb in memory so a computer with 640k was more than enough memory for anyone. Look it up.
cmonster67 wrote:Try running Microsoft's PowerPivot Denali with multiple related 100+ MB tables and charts using Excel x32. Excel can be used for much more than mailing lists and simple monthly sales totals.
By the way, Bill Gates once said that most programs were 64kb in memory so a computer with 640k was more than enough memory for anyone. Look it up.
Hi,
Thanks for the memory 
I couldn't even afford to buy 640kb of RAM when I got my first computer. Just like I didn't have an extra $500.00 for a 5MB Winchester drive. Things do change and time does fly.
Stay well and surf safe
Disck,,
I did not see any applicibality between your response to my question and your reply.Were you intending to reply to another post?
My question pertained to the Norton AntiSpam feature in N360 when running the 64bit Office 2010. Your reply pertained to a 32bit Excel pivot table???
Thanks,
Claude
AComputerWerks wrote:Disck,,
I did not see any applicibality between your response to my question and your reply.Were you intending to reply to another post?
My question pertained to the Norton AntiSpam feature in N360 when running the 64bit Office 2010. Your reply pertained to a 32bit Excel pivot table???
Thanks,
Claude
Claude,
Sorry I lost sight of the problem. Norton does not support x64 apps. Only the x32 versions. At some point in the future they will be supported but there has been no indication of when.
Again, sorry I faile to respond to the correct problem/question earlier. 