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Title: Bit of a noob question, which probably has an obvious answer but...
Post by: REDACTED on June 18, 2015, 04:08:41 PM
Avast is using up buckets of processing power on my (underpowered) laptop's cpu. Now I've been to multiple webpages which say that you can go to settings and choose to lower the priority of the scan, thereby increasing performance. But when I go to settings I see nothing of the sort. My options are

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Could anyone offer any advice for how to find the performance option/lower Avast's cpu usage?

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Title: Re: Bit of a noob question, which probably has an obvious answer but...
Post by: Para-Noid on June 18, 2015, 04:37:19 PM
GUI>Scan>Scan for Viruses>select scan from drop down menu>scan settings
Title: Re: Bit of a noob question, which probably has an obvious answer but...
Post by: Pondus on June 18, 2015, 06:35:15 PM
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Avast is using up buckets of processing power on my (underpowered) laptop's cpu.
do you have any other security programs running?


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Now I've been to multiple webpages which say that you can go to settings and choose to lower the priority of the scan, thereby increasing performance.
Is this what you are looking fore?  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/83361-priority-level-set-applications-processes.html

Title: Re: Bit of a noob question, which probably has an obvious answer but...
Post by: DavidR on June 18, 2015, 06:39:43 PM
@ Booster Gold
Processing power should also be related to what you have running as avast doesn't go off on its own. As a resident (on-access) antivirus scanner it scans activity. It doesn't just scan for no reason, it is activity based.

When does this happen ?

What is using the resources and how much ?

What is your Operating System, CPU and RAM ?
Title: Re: Bit of a noob question, which probably has an obvious answer but...
Post by: Para-Noid on June 18, 2015, 08:02:09 PM
I thought of something else to check, does your Win7 have virtual technology?
If so you may have NG installed and that could raise CPU usage during start-up.
If this high CPU usage is random check out the link David provided.