Norton Internet Security 2005 Personal Firewall slows down Windows XP startup

Evan Joanette · 2005-02-18T15:53:51+00:00

Folks,After some basic checking, it's obvious that my recent install of NIS2005, and specifically, Norton Personal Firewall is causing a 30+second delay of bootup of Windows XP. My background wallpaperappears, but icons take much longer to come up.I disabled that specific feature of NIS 2005, and reinitiated thefirewall that Windows XP SP2 uses.Are there any fixes for this? I'd sure like to use this Nortonfeature that I paid good money for.Evan Joanette

Feb 18, 2005 63 Replies

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Leythos 21 years ago

You did great with English. Since I don't know German I can't make it easier on you :)

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Gerald Vogt 21 years ago

Well, I take it as a compliment that you consider my English that good... I am German and right now I am more a bored husband than anything else. ;-)

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Evan 21 years ago

Lots of great ideas about firewalls and routers. A very lively debate. It's funnythough how quickly things go off on a tangent.

I asked originally if someone new a fix for the extra-long WinXP boot-up time incurred when running Norton Internet Security Firewall. It's the only part of NIS I still have turned off. Using WinXP SP2's firewall at the moment.

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