Hello Hugh - I agree with Wayne both on the memory and AV.
Your problems after installing NAV 2005 are just about a perfect match for what happened with several of my machines after installing NIS 2004 in late 2003. Once I uninstalled it and started using a different AV program, no further problems. I used EZ Armor for a while, but when the promised $10 annual updates on that morphed into $29.95, I dumped it and tried the free AVG7 Wayne mentioned. Now have it on several machines. Don't know about your side of the world, but here in the US even notebook memory can be had dirt cheap if one looks around. I have found that for day-to-day computing, and this is empiric data only, that Win XP Pro SP2 will run adequately with 256MB of RAM (most of mine have 512 or more), and I have installed it on machines with only 128MB. If the owner doesn't have at least 256MB, that would be an excellent investment. To find out how much RAM is there, (at least in Pro), right-click the MY COMPUTER icon on the desktop and select properties. Near the bottom of the GENERAL tab you should see the amount of installed RAM. Since the machine worked okay with NAV2002, I would expect that once you clear NAV2005 it will again work adequately, and if you get a bit more RAM if needed, it will work fine. FWIW, I have sitting right beside me a 7 year old Dell Optiplex P2/450MHz with only 256MB RAM and it runs Win XP Pro SP2 quite satisfactorily. Granted, I don't do any heavy number crunching or graphics manipulation with it, and the only games I play are backgammon, gin, pitch and euchre, but it is certainly a more than adequate machine for my purposes. G'luck. - Bill Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hugh Gundersen Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 02:28 I've been asked to sort out a Packard Bell lap top (Ho Ho) that is about 2 years old.... CPU about 1.2Ghz memory ???? 20Gb Hdd. It is running XP home (not used to this OS only pro and I find the files are in strange places???). I wiped the Hdd as it once had a massive infection as asked to do and reinstated XP with the restore CD (no real xp cd). Machine quite slow but acceptable. It had Norton AntiVirus 2002 installed and this appeared Ok but I Installed NAV 2005 after first running SP2. Here is the rub... with SP2 all Ok with NAV 2005 everything takes 1/2 hour to complete. Boot up is 4 mins. Start menu = 40sec. IE6 2.5mins Windows Explorer = 2mins NAV window 5mins. Shut down a window = anywhere from 30secs to calling TaskManager to force it to close and then TM take 2 mins to load and the window another 3mins to accept the command to close. Any Ideas ? -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
