 | By Fred Langa Today’s Housecall, in the sixth article of my eight-part series, shows how to set up Norton’s LiveUpdate to run from a password-protected user account without constantly having to log on. After finishing in Toronto, I enjoyed more views of the Great Lakes as I made my way through the night to my native New Hampshire. |
Special scheduled-tasks account has own password
So far, in the recounting of my Housecalls, you’ve seen how to use some free, powerful tools to declutter a PC and speed boot times; how to resolve an address conflict on a small network; how to test the basic security of an Internet connection; how to reduce the size of areas where enormous numbers of junk files can quietly accumulate; how how some very popular software can ruin the performance of some PCs; and how to reduce fan noise in a PC. If you missed the earlier installments, you can jump to Parts One, Two, Three, Four, and Five.
Windows Secrets reader Dan Amsler, the winner of the third Housecall of the four that the newsletter awarded, had wanted me to focus mostly on hardware issues (covered in the Oct. 25 issue). But we also had time for some software work.
We started with the same basic cleanup steps listed in previous installments of this series — they’re part of what I consider routine maintenance. The only specific software issue Dan was dealing with was that his copy of the Symantec/Norton security suite wasn’t reliably updating itself. (Dan’s PC did not experience the slowdown that reader Gene Foster’s did, as described in Part Four. This is another example of the hit-or-miss problems the Symantec/Norton suite sometimes causes.)
Dan is the sole user of his XP-based home office PC. No one else has physical access to the system, so he had no pressing need for a logon password.
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