slow and ghost like

[plcdude]

is how my computer is running right now. I just ran it through my new Norton anti virus and no viruses are reported am I doing something wrong?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. First check for Spyware/Adware. Do so in Safe Mode not normal.

Question: How long does it take to boot?

[plcdude]

3. not that long

but it tells me it is auto imaging a couple of times before finishing.

[charlie]

2. New Norton?

If nothing else works, uninstall Norton and see how it behaves. Norton is a notorious resource hog.

[plcdude]

4. I have about 88 %

free at this time on my hard drive.

[charlie]

5. I'm not talking about drive space

It's CPU resources and disk seeks that it's piggy about.

[plcdude]

6. okay I'll check

that out and get back with you.

[plcdude]

7. actually

the reason I bought the new Norton was to fix this slow ghost like movement of the cursor and the slow fading of the images. What do you think that is?

[charlie]

9. Could be any number of things

Try doing a ctrl-alt-del and selecting the Processes tab. See if there's something running that's soaking up CPU cycles (other than the System Idle Process).

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. If it's XP he one can also hit Ctrl - Shift - Esc at the same time.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. Update your drivers. Go into the Control Panel - Systems -

Hardware - Device Manager

Click on View - Show Hidden Devices

Update the Display drivers. Anything that has an exclamation mark next to it Right Click and Uninstall it; do so so for all them then reboot. See what happens.