I've had Norton 2009 for some time now. But about 4 weeks ago, I noticed my computer freezing every time I went to access photos. This drove me crazy as it continued to get worse and worse, until finally I couldn't take it any more. The freezing was averaging 35 seconds by the time I'd had enough. So yesterday I spent pretty much the entire day going down the list of possibilities: Adware, Malware, missing DLLs, de-fragging and so on. I reinstalled my photo program which I had been using for years. (PSP7).
Finally, a computer guy told me to remove Norton. While I had a suspicion that Norton might be the culprit, there was nothing on Nortons website about conflicts between Norton 2009 and PSP. (although there is a fix for Norton 360 and PSP). So I removed Norton. My photos