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Your Computer started running slowly
05-12-2013 1:13 PM
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After several trials I have realised that the anti-virus program has grown too large with its virus database (normally loaded into RAM) and several enhancements to it have contributed to suddenly overloading the PC.
In particular I have found that AVAST antivirus has been the culprit. Uninstalling it and installing in a different more basic free anti-virus program has solved the problem
Re: Your Computer started running slowly
05-12-2013 1:28 PM
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Quote Avast is the most popular free antivirus around today, and its memory usage is quite impressive. During scanning Avast kept flushing its memory every 10 seconds which kept usage at a very low level, and it should never grow above a small number of Megabytes. Idle resource usage was also very impressive. For efficient memory usage, Avast is the no.1 free antivirus by far.
If a PC running out of memory I would suggest that there are other factors involved
The more usual reason for an anti virus bringing a computer to it's knees is excessive CPU usage while scanning
Re: Your Computer started running slowly
05-12-2013 2:06 PM
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Removing Avast and installing Avira was a solution.
All Pcs were scanned for virus and Trojans and found to be clean. From my signature you can see I have been with computing since 1958 and have been trouble shooting on PCs and Laptops since 1994 when I started with Win 98 O/S responsible for 150 PCs
Re: Your Computer started running slowly
05-12-2013 3:38 PM
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It turned out that the Microsoft Windows Update broke itself and I had to manually patch the installation before it would start working properly again.
This was on a totally clean install from a genuine XP disc. If Windows can break itself before the user installs any of their own software on then there is very little hope
Re: Your Computer started running slowly
10-12-2013 2:23 PM
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One thing that is a real memory consumer is the mozilla range of browsers. Firefox used to be terrible for it but even seamonkey is getting bad these days. Both of which can consume upto 1/2GB of ram with ease.
Re: Your Computer started running slowly
30-12-2013 10:43 AM
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Even my phone has 2GB......
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30-12-2013 12:47 PM
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30-12-2013 2:54 PM
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30-12-2013 3:12 PM
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So remove all memory hogging services/applications, but that customer has to know there is a limit.
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30-12-2013 3:52 PM
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30-12-2013 3:59 PM
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The username gives it away
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