Especially on older systems, Norton Internet Security has a _very_ high
overhead. On one system I work with, we have Norton Internet Security
disabled and NAV disabled except for the email checking. That has close to
its old speed with other applications. That is a Windows 98 system on a 150
Mhz PII processor.

I don't know what security we are losing by doing that, but the alternative
seemed to be to pitch it out the window. That system has a dial-up Internet
connection and so is not permanently connected to the Internet. You may want
to check for Norton or Symantec newsgroups or forums.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"TACGOLF" wrote in message
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Thank you, that seemed to help a little, but they still do not open as
quickly as before. Would really like the old speed back

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Turn _off_ the Office Plug-In in Norton.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"TACGOLF" wrote in message
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word 2003 loads very slowly on its on and in outlook 2003 after SP2,
currently running Norton Internet Sercurity