System Tray Hold Up While Booting

I've had my One 8.9" for a couple of months now and love it. I've noticed something though I've never run into before with XP. After booting, when the system tray is loading (and I've gotten rid of a lot of those), when the XP red security shield comes up there is a long, long, wait until my Norton Antivirus icon shows up and another long wait until the red shield finally goes away and the rest of the icons load (as if it's taking a long time for XP to recognize Norton). I decided to uninstall Norton and install Avira to see if that would eliminate the problem. Unfortunately, the exact same thing would happen. I ended up going back to Norton 09 because I paid for it. Has anyone else experienced this? The wait is enough to be able to get up, go to the kitchen, get out the ice tray, put ice in a glass, get a Coke, come back and it still hasn't gotten past those icons.

By the way, I was stunned to see that, in Add/Remove, Norton 09 is about 20 MB smaller that Avira! I wasn't expecting that.

 

You could use a boot delay program, I have one on my tower. Google boot delay, you can set time delay for programs to load. Slow down some others as you want your AV to load early and I don't think you can schedule the MS security stuff.

One example but there are many: http://3d2f.com/tags/boot/delay/

Phil

 

Thanks oldphil!

 

I use NIS2009 but also a cache manager that includes asymmetric booting. Agree with you that Norton's got the best and least resource intensive security suite for these low powered machines. I replaced Avira with the new free NIS2010 beta on my oldest machine, Dell 866mhz 512RAM XP. Others might want to experiment for themselves:

http://www.symantec.com/norton/beta/ove ... id=nis2010