Mail Shield Causing Shutdown Delays In Mailwasher

[dolphins]

I don't see anything out of the ordinary?

MailWasher uses 6% CPU during delay and peaks at 13% CPU at shutdown.

System peaks at 11% during the delay and drops to 2% at shutdown.

All other processes are idle at 0% during this time.

[DavidR]

Which basically confirms that the problem is one of MailWasher's making.

I have found that ever since it was upgraded (can't recall when) requiring the use of .net framework it has been sluggish at startup (hence the inclusion of the MailWasher PreLoader.exe), which I don't allow to start on boot. So for me MailWasher takes a little longer to start from cold.

Also on shutdown when it has to tidy up, save settings, etc. and close down.

I have been using it for many years mainly because I was on dial-up and it effectively got rid of the spam before I downloaded the remaining legit email on slow dial-up (not a problem now I'm on broadband. I fear that it has become bloated but it is still a very effective program.

[dolphins]

Well, the experts over at Firetrust forums seem to have no interest in any hiccups in the free version. I can't really blame them, after all, it is free. So unless someone with MW Pro chimes in with the same problem I doubt it will be resolved.

Thanks again for your patience and help.

[DavidR]

No problem, glad I could help.

Interestingly I have just had an update in MW Pro as they are now updating to use Visual Basic C++ 2010, don't know if that will improve the speed.