Start up is really painfully slow

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Andre Da Costa

A lot persons have encountered issues with this. The start up is slow.
Anti-Spyware is running in background constantly, but when double click on
the system tray icon to open the main window, it take good while to load up
when compared to other utility programs, a good 5 to 10 mins.

Why is this? I'm not running any additional programs when I open, and its
active running all the time, should it not open a little a faster regardless
of hard disk speed and the Anti-Spyware code not being optimized for
performance?

Thank You,
Andre

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Andre Da Costa said:
Anti-Spyware is running in background constantly, but when double click on
the system tray icon to open the main window, it take good while to load up
when compared to other utility programs, a good 5 to 10 mins.
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Just as an experiment I timed it on my computer and it took < 1 minute.

Have OE, OL2003, Messenger, 5 IE Windows, AVG 7, PCA Host, ZoneAlarm and a
few other bits running on a Win 2000 system. Also it is a PII/350 with 128
MB RAM.

Must try this on my newer XP/SP2 machines

Dick
 
Dick--I don't hesitate to recommend running this on all your machines--there
are some situations in which a performance issue can cause significant
problems--either high CPU usage, or long lags for app launches, and in a few
cases the errors.log file can grow until it fills the disk. However, the
vast majority of installs have no problems, although some issues may be
experienced after actual removal operations!
 
Bill Sanderson said:
Dick--I don't hesitate to recommend running this on all your machines--there
are some situations in which a performance issue can cause significant
problems--either high CPU usage, or long lags for app launches, and in a few
cases the errors.log file can grow until it fills the disk. However, the
vast majority of installs have no problems, although some issues may be
experienced after actual removal operations!
--
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Bill

The XP systems (10 x Pro + 2 x Home) are production systems (I run coin
operated Internet computers). So far the office computers (a mix of 2000 &
2003) are ok. The only problem I have with the current beta is that the icon
returns which would give my customers the opportunity to switch the program
off.

As I believe that this beta needs 'beating to death' I will, possibly today,
install it on one of my production XP Pro computers.

Will keep you advised with either good or bad news.

Dick
MS Partner
 
Dick,
For your *test* machine ... you might want to try ...
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"
This setting removes and restricts access to the tray icons normally found
next to the clock on the taskbar.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/983/

"NoTrayContextMenu"
This setting removes the context menus (right click on the taskbar) for the
system tray, including the Start button, Tab control, and Clock.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/159/
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Mike Burgess said:
Dick,
For your *test* machine ... you might want to try .......
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Mike

Thanks for those useful links.

I installed MS Spware Beta on a production machine today.
No install problems.

Much to my surprise when I logged out of my admin account and logged into
limited account it warned me about 2 items

1) Change of home page - I confirmed this as correct
2) About a start up program - again confirmed as correct {it is my coin op
user screen written in VB6}

Looks like the product is running under a limited account or did I
misunderstand?

Will post to NG results of a test in a very live location

Dick
 
It runs, but some of the detections don't handle the situation
well--including, I think, the examples you cite. If the admin user sets
everything correctly in the browser hijack settings in Microsoft
Antispyware, each limited user logon still gets a warning about the change,
I believe.
 
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