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I didn't want to step on your thread, Floating_Red, but am going to bump now anyways since no one has responded. I'm the PM for NSW so am also interested in people's experiences.
Robert
This may not Apply?:
For awhile i had NSW office pro 2003 when i tried to renew it i couldnt and had go with NAV 2006.
I still had the norton utilities from from the 03 office pro suite and they still worked but nav 06 caused my pc to run slower that it did with
03 office pro
I then had to renew again and couldnt find a version of office pro for any year.
So i opted for NSW basic or standard 07 i cant really tell which because the ui is too vague.
But once the install began (and let me say it was scarey since i had to be online while other versions were be uninstalled)
i was instantly without any av at all it took about 5 mins to restart the pc and run the new nsw installation which it alerted me 2 previous versions of ghost could not be uninstalled so i couldnt install ghost recovery with the nsw 2007 ver.
I wasnt really concerned about ghost though- i was concerned i was unprotected online waiting for a million 1's and 0's
to be configured and installed.
Finally after about 5 minutes more the magic started happening, i seen a ton of useless stuff being removed from my pc;
registery entries, dats i could never get rid of, malware exe's just flying to pieces and then a window pops up saying norton ghost cannot be installed do wish to skip this installation or try again?
I CLICKED SKIP IT I'm UNPROTECTED!!!!!
Norton System works will now restart your computer and i thought "Thank Gawd!"
Then my pc restarted norton tried to run a few progs that windows said "unh no i run first"(Thank you Bill G for putting your o/s ahead of my security) then windows let NSW run and it asked about ghost again and i Clicked forget it dont ever show this flyout again!
Previous installs of norton products ran fail proof exe's i could see in my taskmanager, like about way too many.
NSW 2007 made me a happy camper my comp ran faster and lighter on background progs and half of the essential
exes running were norton av exe's.
I am complete serious before i installed NSW 07 a minimum of 42 .exe's ran in my taskmanager of which 10 of them were norton related exe's.
Now with NSW07 i can get those must run progs down to 26 background exe's, so to answer your question my pc runs better with NSW then it did with norton AV 06.
So no my pc ran better not slower.
Hope this helps
getalittlehalp wrote:This may not Apply?:
For awhile i had NSW office pro 2003 when i tried to renew it i couldnt and had go with NAV 2006.
I still had the norton utilities from from the 03 office pro suite and they still worked but nav 06 caused my pc to run slower that it did with
03 office pro
I then had to renew again and couldnt find a version of office pro for any year.
So i opted for NSW basic or standard 07 i cant really tell which because the ui is too vague.
But once the install began (and let me say it was scarey since i had to be online while other versions were be uninstalled)
i was instantly without any av at all it took about 5 mins to restart the pc and run the new nsw installation which it alerted me 2 previous versions of ghost could not be uninstalled so i couldnt install ghost recovery with the nsw 2007 ver.
I wasnt really concerned about ghost though- i was concerned i was unprotected online waiting for a million 1's and 0's
to be configured and installed.
Finally after about 5 minutes more the magic started happening, i seen a ton of useless stuff being removed from my pc;
registery entries, dats i could never get rid of, malware exe's just flying to pieces and then a window pops up saying norton ghost cannot be installed do wish to skip this installation or try again?
I CLICKED SKIP IT I'm UNPROTECTED!!!!!
Norton System works will now restart your computer and i thought "Thank Gawd!"
Then my pc restarted norton tried to run a few progs that windows said "unh no i run first"(Thank you Bill G for putting your o/s ahead of my security) then windows let NSW run and it asked about ghost again and i Clicked forget it dont ever show this flyout again!
Previous installs of norton products ran fail proof exe's i could see in my taskmanager, like about way too many.
NSW 2007 made me a happy camper my comp ran faster and lighter on background progs and half of the essential
exes running were norton av exe's.
I am complete serious before i installed NSW 07 a minimum of 42 .exe's ran in my taskmanager of which 10 of them were norton related exe's.
Now with NSW07 i can get those must run progs down to 26 background exe's, so to answer your question my pc runs better with NSW then it did with norton AV 06.
So no my pc ran better not slower.
Hope this helps
Thank you for replying.
Please could you confirm if you have a Norton Security Product Installed and, if you have, what Norton Product is it and what is the Version you have Installed, e.g. N.I.S. 2008.
Apparently my rather lengthy discription of my experience with Symantec/Norton software was too lengthy.
I have used nothing but norton products since 2003.
McAfee products previous to 2003.
What i use currently:
Norton SystemWorks 2007
Version: 2007.10.00 Build: 112
And
Norton AntiVirus 2006
getalittlehalp wrote:Apparently my rather lengthy discription of my experience with Symantec/Norton software was too lengthy.
I have used nothing but norton products since 2003.
McAfee products previous to 2003.
What i use currently:
Norton SystemWorks 2007
Version: 2007.10.00 Build: 112
And
Norton AntiVirus 2006
Message Edited by getalittlehalp on 08-16-2008 08:14 PM
Just wanted to double-check as I suspected that you have N.AV 2006 installed; I would Upgrade to N.AV 2008 or even better N.I.S. 2008.
Anyone else who uses Norton SystemWorks with a Norton Security Product - or not - like to comment on this Thread about how your computer runs with N.SW install...
Floating_Red wrote:
getalittlehalp wrote:Apparently my rather lengthy discription of my experience with Symantec/Norton software was too lengthy.
I have used nothing but norton products since 2003.
McAfee products previous to 2003.
What i use currently:
Norton SystemWorks 2007
Version: 2007.10.00 Build: 112
And
Norton AntiVirus 2006
Message Edited by getalittlehalp on 08-16-2008 08:14 PM
Just wanted to double-check as I suspected that you have N.AV 2006 installed; I would Upgrade to N.AV 2008 or even better N.I.S. 2008.
Nope i've made up my mind after having recent issues with symantec support, symantec billing practices, after my subscription expires i'm going with an independent av company. I see where symantec and norton products and policy is going and it looks bad for the consumer. I dont have a problem with anyone here. I have a problem with corporate symantec for over charging my credit card too early causing me a negative balance on my CC. I never authorized early renewal so symantec is going to have to reimburse me for the overlimit charge on my CC= thats $40.00 usd.
I honestly came here for help, got reamed by corporate symantec, its not going to happen next year.
Also i probably wont be back to this forum either only because all can do at this point is complain.
But its a ligit complaint.
On-going Protection probably re-newed your Subscription and, un-less you go to symantec Customer Support, then it will remain On.
Also, even if your Subscription was re-newed, you can Upgrade to the Lastest Version for free.
Surely there must be more than one person that uses Norton SystemWorks...
I have seem quite a few Posts regarding N.SW here so, if you do not mind, please Post your answers here.
Hey, Red.
I have NSW 2008 Prem installed on two XP-Pro machines. I don’t have any performance issues with NSW on either of them.
I’ve been using NSW for as long as it’s been around; and before NSW, other Norton products for as long as there have been Norton products. It hasn’t all been a joy-ride, but I’ve seen a lot of improvement in both efficacy and efficiency. I don’t like the way they’ve been dumbed-down, but I understand why.
Particularly during the last five years, I think they’ve become better and better at deferring to foreground tasks. I’ve read complaints about Symantec processes hogging system resources and have concluded that they’re not all exactly what they seem. I’ve sat down at my computer and noticed that a Symantec process was red-lining the CPU, and yet found that applications were barely affected.
I should state that I don’t have any experience with using a machine regularly without NSW installed, and then installing it. There have been times when I’ve noticed some performance improvement after installing a new version.
Norwegian wrote:
Hey, Red.
I have NSW 2008 Prem installed on two XP-Pro machines. I don't have any performance issues with NSW on either of them.
I've been using NSW for as long as it's been around; and before NSW, other Norton products for as long as there have been Norton products. It hasn't all been a joy-ride, but I've seen a lot of improvement in both efficacy and efficiency. I don't like the way they've been dumbed-down, but I understand why.
Particularly during the last five years, I think they've become better and better at deferring to foreground tasks. I've read complaints about Symantec processes hogging system resources and have concluded that they're not all exactly what they seem. I've sat down at my computer and noticed that a Symantec process was red-lining the CPU, and yet found that applications were barely affected.
I should state that I don't have any experience with using a machine regularly without NSW installed, and then installing it. There have been times when I've noticed some performance improvement after installing a new version.
Hello, Norwegine,
Thank you for taking the time to tell me about your experience.
Red,
I have systemworks 2008 and my only problem with it is that I can't tell save&restore to skip .iso files on a full-disc backup (copying and compressing a 45gb iso file over the network takes all day). Performance is OK, haven't noticed any problems. I had an old version of systemworks on a computer several years ago that made the system crawl.
What I would like is if partition magic worked with vista (x64 pref, but even in x32-compat mode would be nice). I bought PM 2008 and it wouldn't even install.
ShosuroKenshin wrote:Red,
I have systemworks 2008 and my only problem with it is that I can't tell save&restore to skip .iso files on a full-disc backup (copying and compressing a 45gb iso file over the network takes all day). Performance is OK, haven't noticed any problems. I had an old version of systemworks on a computer several years ago that made the system crawl.
What I would like is if partition magic worked with vista (x64 pref, but even in x32-compat mode would be nice). I bought PM 2008 and it wouldn't even install.
Hi ShosuroKenshin,
What Norton SystemWorks Product is it that you use: Basic, Standard or Premier Edition?
Floating_Red wrote:
Hi ShosuroKenshin,
What Norton SystemWorks Product is it that you use: Basic, Standard or Premier Edition?
I use premier edition.