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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2010, 03:41:28 PM »
Have any of those with this problem enabled the avast! Settings, Basic, Appearance, Use special graphics effects ?
As it says this is 'nicer, but may slow down performance on some systems.'

I don't see any way of disabling the graphs, but surely this wouldn't matter if the avastUI remains minimised or on one of the options that doesn't display a graph, e.g. Summary (not statistics), Scan Computer or Maintenance sections.
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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2010, 07:36:31 AM »
Have any of those with this problem enabled the avast! Settings, Basic, Appearance, Use special graphics effects ?
As it says this is 'nicer, but may slow down performance on some systems.'

I don't see any way of disabling the graphs, but surely this wouldn't matter if the avastUI remains minimised or on one of the options that doesn't display a graph, e.g. Summary (not statistics), Scan Computer or Maintenance sections.
That seems to work! I saw 2-5% CPU for AvastUI.exe. I somehow missed that options in settings. Thanks. :)

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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2010, 02:17:14 PM »
You're welcome, though that setting is disabled by default I believe.
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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2010, 04:50:33 PM »
Good idea, I had the same thought and turning off "special graphics effects" was the 1st thing I tried to no avail. If anyone on the development side of Avast reads this thread, can you answer a couple of questions?

1. What does Avast use to render these graphs? DirectX, OpenGL, Windows GDI? or some form of ActiveX/Flash like another thread mentioned?
2. Can I somehow update this rendering platform? Like getting the latest .NET framework or something?

I would rather not have to uninstall Avast! and use something else.

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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2010, 06:01:52 PM »
The statistical graphs use flash, though I don't believe that is what is meant by the "special graphics effects" as the statistical graphs still work without that setting enabled I believe.
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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2010, 07:41:57 PM »
The statistical graphs use flash, though I don't believe that is what is meant by the "special graphics effects" as the statistical graphs still work without that setting enabled I believe.
Is Flash from Flash v10 plugin or does it come with its own Flash player? I know regular Flash v10 web browser plugin do not run well on that PC. :( Yonatan's post #7 said it wasn't Flash so I am confused.

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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2010, 08:18:39 PM »
It uses flash if you have it installed, it doesn't come with its own flash player.
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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2010, 08:50:59 PM »
It uses flash if you have it installed, it doesn't come with its own flash player.
Ahhh. Interesting. Thanks. :)

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Re: AvastUI.exe hogs CPU!
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2010, 09:11:44 PM »
You're welcome.
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