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03-27-2004, 02:05 PM
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XP Pro takes forever
Why would XP all of a sudden takes forever to load Zone Alarm and AVG?
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03-27-2004, 03:37 PM
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If you have recently upgraded (or in AVG's case updated the virus definition files) the files may be spread throughout the hard disk. Defrag should work. That is of course all things being equal. Maybe something extra is loading in the background, cache files, spyware, etc.
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03-27-2004, 08:12 PM
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Just curious, but why do you thinks it's ZA or AVG? You can disable ZA from loading on startup to make sure. Haven't used AVG, but you should be able to turn that off, also.
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03-27-2004, 08:17 PM
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They are memory hogs!
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03-27-2004, 08:42 PM
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03-27-2004, 09:56 PM
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AVG only takes up 548kb on my sytem.
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03-28-2004, 09:27 AM
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AVG is one of the *easiest* antivirus apps on a system out there. I prefer Norton myself, but on low power systems I install AVG, it works a lot better. Zone Alarm is not too bad either.
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03-28-2004, 02:50 PM
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Defraged, disabled AVG from startup, still kind of slow to load Zone Alarm. I only have 256MB of memory, could that be it? This is a P3 700@933, temp at 38 C.
I know it's AVG or ZA because besides MBM5 they are the only programs that load on the bottom right and MBM5 is not taking forever. At start up: NVcpl Nwiz MBM5 21Client rundll32 ctfmon Microsoft Office Zone Alarm Any other ideas? |
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03-28-2004, 02:59 PM
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yes get more ram. windows xp in my opinion NEEDS 512MB to handle itself well.
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03-29-2004, 07:01 AM
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03-29-2004, 07:38 AM
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Take a look here at your start up programs you have listed. Some can be shut down.
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php See the link at the bottom of the page for an explanation of the status keys. |
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03-29-2004, 01:55 PM
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Virus check ok. Thanks for the list of start up programs, unchecked a couple.
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