When I manually run the daily Full System Scans on my laptop Norton 360 appears to be slow when opening up. If I try to click on scans right away it will become unresponsive. I need to wait from 30 seconds to a minute before I can do anything with Norton 360 to scan. After I start the Full System Scan it appears slow to start the scan but once started it continues the scan as it should but as it moves from the scan to the PC tuneup it takes 2 to 5 minutes to begin. It's also like that when starting the backup before finishing completely.
My laptop uses Windows 7 with a 64bit operating system. I also have an external hard drive that tends to fall asleep at times but wakes up when I need to access something off of it. It usually holds up the laptop for a few seconds while it wakes up.
I ran the Disk Cleanup and cleared many files but there are a few that will not clean. They are Setup Log Files and System archived Windows Error Reporting but I guess those are part of the system. I already had to use the Norton Remove and Reinstall tool once so is there anything else I can use to speed up my laptop? This sometimes happens on the desktop also but usually the laptop is the slowest.
Any help is greatly appreciated!