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avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« on: July 21, 2011, 05:14:44 PM »
I seem to be having a lot of slowdowns all of a sudden on my XP SP3 machine -- hard drive grinding, and general sluggishness with Explorer (not IE). I've put up with it for a few days and initially put it down to Opera, but it's so unusual I had to try disabling avast! first since I see its tray icon spinning around a lot.

Disabling all shields temporarily, my computer is once again quiet, spry and responsive (but unprotected). I've used avast! since version 4 and never had this problem before. Has something changed significantly (like an additional scanning process) in the most recent version I have updated to, 6.0.1203?

Cheers.
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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2011, 05:39:37 PM »
What other security software do you have installed, firewall, ant-spyware, etc. ?

Have (or did) you another Anti-Virus installed in this system, if so what was it and how did you get rid of it ?

Do you have any defrag software installed that runs in the background ?
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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2011, 09:11:18 PM »
Quote from: marfaw on July 21, 2011, 05:14:44 PM
I seem to be having a lot of slowdowns all of a sudden on my XP SP3 machine...

Read here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=81547.0
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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2011, 03:45:33 AM »
Thanks. Hm, no I don't have anything else running in the background besides Sygate PF Pro; not even PerfectDisk or Retrospect which is mentioned in those other threads.

Diskeeper defragger I run manually, so it's not that either.

I may just try the patch anyway and see what happens.

Cheers.
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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2011, 06:19:39 AM »
Quote from: marfaw on July 21, 2011, 05:14:44 PM
I seem to be having a lot of slowdowns all of a sudden on my XP SP3 machine -- hard drive grinding, and general sluggishness with Explorer (not IE). I've put up with it for a few days and initially put it down to Opera, but it's so unusual I had to try disabling avast! first since I see its tray icon spinning around a lot.


marfaw,

XP PRO SP3 here. Windows Explorer was slower and the system overall booted slower (subjectively, never pulled out a stopwatch). Reverted to 6.0.1125 and do not see the same problems. Also posted in the official release section.

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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2011, 02:05:24 PM »
Quote from: marfaw on July 21, 2011, 05:14:44 PM
I seem to be having a lot of slowdowns all of a sudden on my XP SP3 machine -- hard drive grinding, and general sluggishness with Explorer (not IE). I've put up with it for a few days and initially put it down to Opera, but it's so unusual I had to try disabling avast! first since I see its tray icon spinning around a lot.

Disabling all shields temporarily, my computer is once again quiet, spry and responsive (but unprotected). I've used avast! since version 4 and never had this problem before. Has something changed significantly (like an additional scanning process) in the most recent version I have updated to, 6.0.1203?

Cheers.


I had all of these problems last week after installing Avast for the first time.   Then, I downloaded and installed the patch for Window XP users (see the link in a previous post in this thread) and it solved the problems completely.   Hope it does for you too. 
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Re: avast! 6.0.1203 sluggish side-effects?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2011, 04:01:13 PM »
Quote from: KPaw on July 22, 2011, 02:05:24 PM

I had all of these problems last week after installing Avast for the first time.   Then, I downloaded and installed the patch for Window XP users (see the link in a previous post in this thread) and it solved the problems completely.   Hope it does for you too. 

Thanks. I've had my computer on all day with Opera and Outlook open and doing lots of other tasks after installing the patch and haven't noticed the CPU being tied up and the OS freezing up like before. Fingers crossed it stays that way. Cheers :)
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