This is all very interesting. Andy, your advice is helpful and written so that it is easy to understand. I bought the Norton 360 thinking I was doing a good thing for our computer; it has moved at a snails pace ever since. I do run a couple of the free programs you mention and they don't find too much anymore which I think means Norton is doing what it is supposed to but we're paying the price with very slow loading times. I'm going to give those other programs a try. Do you think I should uninstall Norton while trying the other programs?
Thanks, emm