The culprit for the system slow down is AVG itself. Especially if your using
AVG with any other Anti-virus software
including OutPost it will clog your system and consume multiple cpu cycles.
This is becuase AVG has to check every
single file that AVG scans including the files used by the currently running
system monitoring programs against
its database.
Windows Xp Event Viewer which can take snapshots of the system processes in
real-time can tell you which processes are running on the system and store the
results in an event.log file.
To set up event viewer do these steps:
Open Event Viewer.
In the console tree, click the log you want to set options for.
On the Action menu, click Properties.
On the General tab, specify the options you want.
Notes
To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click
Administrative Tools, and then double-click Event Viewer.
You must be logged on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators
group in order to complete this procedure.
To restore the default settings, click Restore Defaults.
To clear the log, click Clear Log.
Under Log size, select one of these options:
If you do not want to archive this log, select Overwrite events as needed.
If you want to archive the log at scheduled intervals, select Overwrite events
older than and specify the appropriate number of days. Be sure that the Maximum
log size is large enough to accommodate the interval.
If you must retain all the events in the log, select Do not overwrite events
(clear log manually). This option requires that the log be cleared manually.
When the maximum log size is reached, new events will be discarded.
I was just working on a system that had AVG 7.1 installed on it of which I
uninstalled AVG 7.1 and that cured the problem no more slow downs! AVG IMHO is
bloatware so I stay away from it :P
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, April 19, 2006 >>>
Beginning two weeks ago, a complete virus scan with AVG that used to take
around 2 hours is now taking more than 8!!
It begins automatically at midnight so I'm not awake to see what is eating the
CPU cycles. Is there a program that I could install that would take a snapshot
of active processes several times during that scan so I can see what's going on?
Thx. (XP Pro)
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