Behavior Shield Slows Win7 System Down After It Has Been Running For Days

[NoelC]

By the way I stopped having the problems I described.

I run my systems 24/7, literally going between Windows Updates or software installs- often for weeks or months - without reboots.

I fully agree that Windows does NOT inherently slow itself down, or does it corrupt itself over the long term.  Users are pretty much responsible for that.

Jav, could you provide some version info about what OS you're running, and exactly what version of Avast?

-Noel

[jwoods301]

My "1 minute guess" is that the Behavior Shield is caching results, and when the cache starts to get full, it bogs down trying to pop entries out of the cache to make room.

I would suggest using Process Explorer from Sysinternals.com and take a look at some of the threads inside the Avast processes.

It might also be helpful to do minidumps on the process(es) involved (right click on the process name) when it starts to slow and look at those for clues.