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Title: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: drhayden1 on September 11, 2006, 11:43:28 PM

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_slows_windows_down/1

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_slows_windows_down/2

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_slows_windows_down/3

very good info :D

Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: CharleyO on September 12, 2006, 05:05:08 PM

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None of that was a surprise to me, but, it is good info for those that do not know. Thanks for posting it.    :)


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Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: drhayden1 on September 12, 2006, 05:50:42 PM

thanks charleyO and have a good one my avast! friend :D

Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: Dwarden on September 23, 2006, 09:11:46 PM

this article was updated with more software (inlude Avast!) ...!

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_really_slows_windows_down/5

and Avast! results are ... fantastic ;) GJ Alwil

Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: Lisandro on September 23, 2006, 11:37:11 PM

Fantastic tests...
It's very instructive to the ones that say that avast! could slow down the system.
Thanks Drhayden, many thanks.  :)

Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: CharleyO on September 23, 2006, 11:53:51 PM

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Yes, proof positive that avast is one of the few av's that does very little to slow down a computer ... as opposed to those we all at this forum know are resource hogs.


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Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: Mastertech on September 24, 2006, 05:30:05 AM

Unfortunately the test results are flawed because he is running it in a VM and without taking into account the Windows XP Prefetcher which is self tuning. You cannot accurately judge boot times running something in a VM. Not to mention simply rebooting two more times will give different results due to the Prefetcher self optimizing.

Title: Re: What Slows Windows Down?
Post by: Dwarden on September 24, 2006, 04:26:09 PM

you can always write him to disable prefetch :) ... anyway i got that enabled for obvious reason