Hi folks, I've had a look around at other items on the forum, so far nothing seems to meet my issue.
I'm running the latest version of Norton 360 (I checked for updates earlier) but my PC is running very slow to do anything that requires hard disk access, starting programs, opening files, downloading data from the internet. Typing in documents seems to be ok, like now thankfully.
When I checked the resource monitor in the task manager n360.exe is using between 80 to 98% of the active time by writing about 2 million bytes constantly. Interestingly it is not reading any bytes(?). I know that there is a scanning process going on, but this is really slowing things down. I've turned off the defrag option in the 360 settings in case it was anything to do with that, but no change in performance. It is really tiresome as even navigating the Norton settings is painfully slow. I know that Norton is the cause but I don't know what to do about it. Programs regularly lock up with (Not responding) in the header bar.
Running windows 7, 4 GB ram, 500GB HD with 80GB used. I'm not trying to do anything clever. Norton has worked faithfully for me for ages and now this is quite disappointing.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
MMMonty