Suspend alerts and background tasks in Norton device security

When you perform important tasks, watch movies, or play games in full-screen mode, you can configure Norton to stop sending alert messages and suspend background tasks that slow performance.

Your Norton product has following types of Silent Mode:

Silent Mode	The Silent Mode that you manually turn on for a specified duration.
Full Screen Detection	The Silent Mode that your Norton product turns on automatically when it detects a full-screen application and turns off when you stop using the full-screen application. For example, when you watch a movie, play games, or make a presentation, you run the application in the full-screen mode.
Quiet Mode	The Silent Mode that your Norton product turns on automatically when it detects: - a disk burning session - a Media Center TV recording session - running instance of a program that you included in the Silent Mode Programs list. Your Norton product automatically turns off Silent Mode when either of the above session is complete. You cannot turn off Silent Mode when the session is in progress and need to wait for it to complete.

Tip: When Silent Mode is on, the outer circle of the Norton product icon in the notification area changes from yellow to gray.

Configure Norton to suspend alerts and background tasks

Open your Norton device security product.

If you see the My Norton window, next to Device Security, click Open.
In the Norton product main window, click Settings.
In the Settings window, click Administrative Settings.
Under Silent Mode Settings, in the Silent Mode row, turn on Silent Mode, click Apply, then select the amount of time that you want to stop notifications and background tasks.
Under Silent Mode Settings, in the Full Screen Detection row, move the switch to On to suppress Norton alerts and background tasks whenever you use full-screen applications. Norton restarts notifications and background tasks automatically when you are finished.
Under Silent Mode Settings, under Quiet Mode on Detection of do the following:
- In the IMAPI 2.0 Disk Burn row, move the switch to On to automatically suppress background tasks and improve performance when you burn disks. Norton still displays notifications while you burn disks and restarts background tasks when you are finished.
- In the User-Specified Programs row, click Configure to add memory-intensive programs that you want to run in Quiet Mode. When you use these programs, Norton stops background tasks that could slow performance and restarts them when you are finished.

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