FP 5.6 Windows Install

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You'll never BELIEVE what Ed Olmstead said here...:
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> Thanks - it was either Norton or Counterspy - shut both down and no 

Or both, if they both have to check every file.  Caching notwithstanding,
it slows things down a lot.

Norton is a known hog anyway.  In fact, it's not just a performance
inhibitor, it's actually been known to conflict with -so- much software
and cause -so many- BSOD's (even under XP) that I removed the version that
came preinstalled on my laptop as one of my first configuration steps.
McAfee isn't as bad for conflicts, but it's just as bad performance-wise.
I basically run scan-on-download with AVG via my download manager, and
request a system-wide once a week.  I'd rather have a 45min scan of >0.5TB
than take a ~30% performance hit 100% of the time.  I don't need the email
scanner, etc., because I don't use email that way.  And I only browse a few
select, known-good web sites.

Then I turned off NTFS filesystem indexing.  Indexing being turned on in
a filesystem can slow down performance a good 30-50% itself on Win2K,
and it's not so great under XP.  I'm not the only person that's had huge
performance gains from turning off indexing, which is usually enabled by
default--and mostly useless.  Smart money says Vista's filesystem access
will crawl, with all the search power they claim to be putting into it.
That power comes at a non-trivial cost that usually isn't worth paying.

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