Yes, remove Norton (IMO). Purchase a less bloated AV.

Norton doesn't seem as bloated as some people would have me believe, as I said, it's bought and paid for now so I can't justify binning it.

Nothing at all wrong with Norton.

It's resulted in slowdown on every single PC I've ever installed it on. Not as bad as MacAfee, mind.

That said I haven't touched it for a while so maybe it's been trimmed down again. Back in the day it was a great piece of software.

Right - I have a problem with my laptop at home, some pages won't load (RLFans & BBCi) whereas others will, I have done the usual - Scans, change of browser, emptying caches, checking security levels but all to no avail. They just time out or 'hang', any ideas? The browsers I have used are the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Safari

Cant find the old tech thread, so was just wondering if anyone can recomment any decent laptops for £200-250? I'm sure BG posted some links to ones on Tesco....

depends what you want it for, Tesco start at £280 ish (just had a look)

I did but the offers change quickly.

Basically any decent make (Toshiba, HP, Acer) 3GB RAM as a minimum, anything over a 250GB hard drive.
You may have to up the budget though, 299 was about the going rate

I just bought a 4GB Dell from Tesco for £399 and it (so far) is fairly impressive.

I just got a 3Gb, P6100, 250Gb, Acer for £250. It was available through their ebuyer outlet on ebay for £230. There was a nice Toshiba on Tesco outlet for £195.

The Mrs has got a new laptop from work and it's pretty good, I'm using it now. But it is impossible to download anything, no matter what it is, the downloads stop at 99%.

Any suggestions? I'm using the administrator account and there are no corporate restrictions etc, it's just fresh out of the box. I've tried turning the AV temporarily but this doesn't do anything and there is plenty of disk space.

Sounds like something is happening when the browser is writing the files to the download folder from the temp file it uses to download to.

Are you sure there are no restrictions on the machine, usually in the group policy management console where all these restrictions are made.

Setting up (well finally got round to) splitting off company network (with full resource access) and a guest network (with internet access only), fairly simple, reckon two vlans should do it?

So, no takers on this one then?

Pfft, amateurs.

Does it only happen at home?

Is it a recent problem?