Compression Regression????

OS - XP Home Pentium II 267Mhz 192 Mb Ram

Problem: When running DiskCleanup it used to compress to under 1000. Now after installing a new Norton anti-virus, it only will compress to 80,000. Is this because of the Norton? Or is it another issue? How can I get it to compress more? I think it is causing my computer to run slower than it used to. It also seems I have to defrag more often than I used to.
Is my compression in regression????????????????????

 

Hi dave Well, you could uninstall Norton try again and if you're back to the usual compression, then it was Norton (which had the reputation of being a real resource hog and a "bigfoot" program.) Also have you checked your C drive for any unusually large files? Sometimes install proggies leave lots of temp files on your hd. You could also d/l and install crap cleaner and
CleanUp! run them and see if there are a buncha files that need flushing. Someone else will probably be along with some better ideas, but those are a start.
Good Luck
Bill

 

Thanks, I already have "cleanup" installed and use it constantly. I also downloaded "crap cleaner" last night and it found a lot of stuff, but compression field still showed 80,000 when I was finished.