Ok guys I appreciate the advice I will go with the hardware upgrades and see if i can get another year or two out of this thing.
edit: And btw, if changing the power scheme didn't help, change it back or your battery life will suffer SEVERELY.
Norton is absolutely horrible. I'd rather shoot myself in the face than use it for 1 year.
QFT. 360 is even less configurable then regular NAV or NIS. I despise that one even more. To temporarily disable the AV or Firewall for test purposes is like 5 clicks, when NIS is right click on the tray icon.
$453Wow all this information would have cost you around $300 with Geek Squad.
I still think you have something else wrong. I can build an XP machine on a 5-7 year old machine with 256MB of RAM and it wont take 5 minutes to start Firefox.
Does Dave have a laptop? Just borrow his RAM to see if that fixes it.
edit: And btw, if changing the power scheme didn't help, change it back or your battery life will suffer SEVERELY.
A simple "no" would be ok too
Now that wouldn't be as much fun now would it. btw, Im removing spyware off a customers computer right now. Part of my cleanup involved removing Nortonsspywarecrapware and replacing it with AVG.