I've had my new laptop for awhile now. It's a Compaq Presario, v3000. I picked it up for doing a website for a local company.

For those who want specs:

AMD Turion64 X2 1.64ghz. 512mb RAM, 256mb Nvidia graphics. Windows XP home (Vista capable :( much to my disgust).

Well I've restored it three times, due to errors on my behalf. Norton is really bugging me. Every time I start my computer, Norton pops up asking me to go through their annoying wizard, which supposedly protects my computer. Now, I know my laptop is slow at start up, for many reasons, but I find Norton to be a major contributor to this. Lets list the other contributors, but I really do think that its norton.

* Norton

* WAMP

* MSN

* Synaptics Pointing Device Manager

* Windows Security

* Wireless connection

* Groove

Any Ideas bout how to speed her up?

Microsoft Grove, while we are on the topic. It's the only piece of office 2007 that I loath with a passion. It's like, a collaborative workspace, using a crappy (probably Microsoft Server), to synchronize workspaces across the planet.