Norton Help Please

ok i am lost and lookin for help. i am not that computer smart but i need help. i am currently trying to play the sims 2 on my computer. now my computer is pretty new, 2.40 ghz speed and 256 memory and a huge gb hard drive. everything requirement wise is good i think. but my game runs like crap. slow, and drags out, loses sound in and out. its horrible and choppy. my computer came with norton antivirus...and is there any way to shut it down????? cause i cant find it. when i disable it, i get all these popups telling me my virus stuff is off. its retarded and hate norton right now. can anyone tell me whats wrong or have any ideas what to do? or how to close norton? could that be causing the game to be so retarded? thanks for any help!

 

if you want to disable norton, do the following:

uninstall norton antivirus
install avg or avast and install that.

anyway, what video card do you have in your computer? if you don't knowk right click on the desktop and go to properties. then go to the settings tab, then click on advanced, then to adapter. tell us what it is.

 

how do you uninstall norton? and what is the other things you listed? sorry i am computer dumb!

my graphic card or whatever is Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV (where it says adapter type)


i am lost.... but can norton cause my game to be doing that?

 

You should be able to uninstall Norton by going to control panel/ add or remove programs, and uninstall from there. Norton is known to be a resource hog, and with only 256 meg of ram, it is possible that the system is constantly going to the swap file and causing the poor play, especially if you have onboard video which is being allocated some of your meager supply of memory. So, as mentioned, try that, and install AVG in it's place and see what happens.

 

Uninstall Norton's and install AVG or Avast from MG.

AVG http://www.majorgeeks.com/ download886.html
.............OR..................
Avast download http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1968.html

Download either, or both, while you are still running Norton's. Get off the net and install one or the other. Then uninstall Norton's while you are still off the net. Don't go back on-line until you have either AVG or Avast installed, and then update your selected AV.

Both are free. I prefer Avast due to it's simplicity in updating. It does it for you automatically and unobtrusively whenever updates are released without you having to bother searching..

Do you use Norton's Anti-Virus, or Norton's system works. If SystemWorks I would keep Windoctor and Speeddisk and give AntiVirus the flick.

Let us know how you go. Bazza

 

i have uninstalled all of norton. it was just anti virus and internet security thing. it came on the computer from dell. i dont have one of the others yet for fear it will mess up my games still but i am getting ready to dl one now. i will go with avast since its recommended. i also just added 256 more memory. computer and game seems to be running alot better but still not the way i would hope. could it be my graphic card is just not good enuff? thanks all for the help!!