Service Pace 3 and Norton Internet Security

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Has anyone noticed how Office programs have slowed down since Service Pack 3
was installed. All my virus scanning seems to take much longer.
 
SP-3 for XP did not impact my Microsoft Office programs, Office verison 2003
with its SP-3.
 
manorway said:
Has anyone noticed how Office programs have slowed down since Service Pack
3 was installed. All my virus scanning seems to take much longer.
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No, not at all. Not on any of the Windows machines here (running Office 2003
on some and Office 2007 on some) and not on any of the many installs I've
done for clients. You've got something else going on but without any
information about your system, etc. there's no way for me to guess what
that something would be.

Malke
 
manorway said:
Has anyone noticed how Office programs have slowed down since Service Pack
3 was installed. All my virus scanning seems to take much longer.
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Addendum - I just noticed that your subject line references Norton Internet
Security and the body of your message is about MS Office. If you meant to
ask about a relationship between these two separate things, I'm afraid I
missed that.

Norton products are garbage. If you are experiencing a slowdown in any
situation when you have a Norton product installed, this is "normal".
Uninstall Norton and use a better antivirus program. I particularly like
NOD32, Avast if you need a free one. See if your issues disappear after
dumping Norton.

Malke
 
Has anyone noticed how Office programs have slowed down since Service Pack 3
was installed. All my virus scanning seems to take much longer.
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My experience is completely different. Neither Office programs, nor
anything else, has slowed down at all since SP3 was installed. And
that's on several computers.
 
Malke said:
Addendum - I just noticed that your subject line references Norton Internet
Security and the body of your message is about MS Office. If you meant to
ask about a relationship between these two separate things, I'm afraid I
missed that.

Norton products are garbage. If you are experiencing a slowdown in any
situation when you have a Norton product installed, this is "normal".
Uninstall Norton and use a better antivirus program. I particularly like
NOD32, Avast if you need a free one. See if your issues disappear after
dumping Norton.

Malke
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OK, will continue to search for a cause. My reference to virus checking is
from the dialog as an office file opens. It does not display until the doc
has been checked. I assumed that was a Norton function. Anything that passes
through has really slowed after SP3.

Tusen takk
 
TaurArian said:
Did you see:
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/sharedtech.nsf/docid/2008051623512613

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| Has anyone noticed how Office programs have slowed down since Service Pack 3
| was installed. All my virus scanning seems to take much longer.


Thanks, that will be worth a try
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I updated 2 of our 3 computers w/ Service Pack 3 and both are slower.
Neither have Norton on them. Any suggestions?
 
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