AVG - how to disable for manual checks..?

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Hi

After installing AVG I can't seem to find how to disable it from auto
running apart from shutting down the control center which doesn't seem to
stop all aspects of it within the memory.

Can anyone help please...?

Ed
 
Ed said:
After installing AVG I can't seem to find how to disable it from auto
running apart from shutting down the control center which doesn't seem to
stop all aspects of it within the memory.
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That's the very reason why I deinstalled AVG 6 and installed avast! -
www.avast.com - which is free for home use, too.

Roy
 
That's the very reason why I deinstalled AVG 6 and installed avast! -
www.avast.com - which is free for home use, too.
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Thanks for that. Guess that AVG wasn't the most flexible choice - at least
for allowing me to decide when it is going to run or not. I am sure I saw a
post in this group praising AVG for the very feature that I seek....!!!

ah well off to avast

Thanks again for your reply :)

Ed
 
Untick all in resident shield and email checking in control centre.


.......ah thanks for that. I take it that, apart from using msconfig, there
isn't a way to prevent the control center from loading and so only using
AVG's application when I decide to launch it...?

Ed
 
Not that I know of.

Well thanks for your help :)

Maybe I'm expecting too much of AVG or an Anti Virus application in running
as I want it to.

Ed
 
Ed said:
Well thanks for your help :)

Maybe I'm expecting too much of AVG or an Anti Virus application in running
as I want it to.

Ed
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You could shut it off in services if your running XP, but I don't understand
why you would want to. Mine runs all the time, doesn't interfere with
installing, playing games etc.
 
You could shut it off in services if your running XP, but I don't
understand
why you would want to. Mine runs all the time, doesn't interfere with
installing, playing games etc.
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You are no doubt right and maybe I'm just a little too concerned with
services and applications etc running within the system memory. The reason
is I just spent a few hours reformatting and reinstalling my OS (XP) and
replacing the apps that I use. Over the last couple of years (not formatted
in that time) I was amazed at how responsive a system can be when it is
cleaned up in the way that I have just done. I am just being cautious about
what goes back and what is running.

I noticed also that some applications warn about stopping anti virus apps
running before you install them.


Ed
 
Sorry, disregard the above post...thought you were referring to
Kaspersky...excuse the post please.
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No problem but out of curiosity how much does your client use in terms of
memory whilst running..?
 
I leave mine running all the time, and have noticed no lag of
resourses...some of the features such as Archives, and email can be disabled
(unchecked) in the Monitor properties which will keep the AV from running
slowly. I also always leave mine running on installs...no problems. Using
WinXP Pro.

....Allen
 
You could shut it off in services if your running XP, but I don't
Sorry, disregard the above post...thought you were referring to
Kaspersky...excuse the post please.

....Allen
 
Sorry, disregard the above post...thought you were referring to
If I'm looking at the processes correctly, I'm only using about 8MB of
memory the way mine is configured. Of course that is at the present, when
there is nothing downloading or automatic update is not running (Autoupdater
uses about 10MB when active). I know in this group, I may get flamed for
saying anything against NOD32, but I used it for about a week and it slowed
my shutdown of WinXP Pro by about 10 seconds. AVK shuts down in about 9
seconds like I've always experienced.

Best non-free AV that I've used is F-Prot for Windows, which is very good on
memory and resourses, but lacks some features that I like about either NOD
or Kaspersky. I've also used the AVG you are using in the free version,
which I believe is almost the same as the commercial version and it ran very
well and is a good program. So you have nothing to worry about, in my
opinion.

We all generally have plenty of memory using Win XP and if not, should buy
another stick to make at least a minimum of 512MB...as far as resourses,
they are there *to* be used...so I don't worry about them.

....Allen
 
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