If possible, I would like to see Quiet Mode extended so that Norton background idletime tasks are temporarily suspended during download of large files where the estimated download time is greater than 5 minutes (or greater than the Idle Timeout selected by the user, whichever time is shorter).
I was trying to download the 114 MB offline installer for NIS v. 19.5.1.2 from www.norton.com/nis12 today over a public WiFi connection. The estimated download time was approx. 14 minutes (download speed approx. 100 to 120 KB per sec). My NIS Idle Timeout is set to the default 10 min, and the download of the NIS installer was aborted after approx. 10 min (only 68 MB of download completed) because the background Norton Insight task started running 10 min after my system went into idle mode.
I realize now that I could have avoided this problem if I had turned on Silent Mode before starting the download (or permanently increased my Idle Timeout to 20 min, which I would prefer not to do) but it would be much easier for Norton users - especially those using various public WiFi connections with different download speeds - if their Norton product would automatically turn on Quiet Mode when large files are being downloaded.
Please see ALiasX' related suggestion here titled Extend Quiet Mode to Automatically Detect Software Installations.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * NIS 2011 v. 18.7.0.13 * IE 9.0 * Firefox 10.0.2
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS