Well, I am not sure I will ever turn off my firewall while I was connected to the Internet, or EVER, or not sure you need to turn off Norton (I wouldn't ever), but definitely go into task manager stop all that other junk that gets going if it isn't a system program. Mario has a point there.

Some people don't realize that if you have 8 tabs open in Chrome you have 8 instances of Chrome running.

And you go, Gosh, why is my computer not running???? Is it something evil???

Amazon "music helper" or whatever it is called is atrocious. Yeah, suck up all my memory and CPU. Very helpful. Thanks Amazon.