Sheldon, do the math, add all the numbers to get total memory usage, my quick math puts is at roughly 6.5 mb virtually nothing these days.

 

CPU usage will fluctuate, I don't know of any way to track this for a given process.

 

Norton has cleaned up their software in the last 2 years to consume less resources.

 

Control Panel (classic view) / Performance Information and Tools / Advanced Tools (left side) / Open Reliability and Performance monitor.

 

You may be able to use this to monitor specific process cpu usage, not sure.

 

Hi Sheldon G,

I note from your posting /windows firewall off/

 

Is that correct.?

 

In mine both McAfee & windows firewalls are on and I have had no conflicts as yet.

[Of course there was a warning that both may not work together]

 

snow

Dimension 9200
Intel ViiV Core 2Duo E6400 Processor 2.13GHz 1066 MHz 2MB
Windows XP media Centre Edition 2005 now VISTA OS 32bit
Memory:2048 MB Dual DDR2 533 MHz [2x1024]
Dell Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse Dell Wireless Bluetooth
Video Card: 1GB nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual graphics card
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme music
Intel 82801 HR/HH/HO SATA RAID controller
Intel Matrix Storage Manager v7.6.0.1011
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HL-DT-ST DVD +/- RW GSA-H31N
HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDRH10N
Hard Drive: 640 GB [2*320GB]SATA stripe RAID 0
Media Card Reader 13-in- 1 internal

 

 

Correct. I believe when I selected Norton firewall to be on, it turned windows firewall off. ; I have not tried to enable both.

"when I selected Norton firewall to be on, it turned windows firewall off. ; I have not tried to enable both"

 

Good - that's the correct procedure. The 2007 versions of Norton are much leaner applications than previous versions, I'm running NIS 2007 on a Vista desktop, a Vista laptop and two XP laptops. I've done a few (not very scientific) tests on all of these with NIS on and NIS off. In reality, I can't see any difference in performance. I really like the way that Norton has implemented their firewall as well. In the past I've run various software firewalls (including ZoneAlarm) and I love the fact that Norton is not constantly pestering me to "allow" or "disallow". I've not yet had an instance where Norton has blocked a legitimate application or process or allowed a suspicious one.

 

It's amazing how many people still beat the drum about Norton being a "resource hog" without any substantive evidence.

I have McAfee on mine [this was bundled with the computer by Dell]

I have recently done a clean reinstallation of the VISTA os. Finally when I finished with the os installation, installed the McAfee. This automatically turned the windows firewall off. McAfee works very well without causing any problem.

 

I was not sure if my windows firewall should be on.

So I went into the firewall setting and activated the windows firewall as well. So far I have had no problem with internet or other functions.

 

snow