Hello Friends,
Whenever I use Ad-Aware SE 1.06r1, the software starts normally.
The computer reaches 108,000 files in about 15 minutes, and then struggles to scan the remaining files.
The computer slows down around the "108,000 files open" milestone. I have about 200,000 files on my hard drive. It takes about 3 to 4 hours, to finish scanning my hard drive.
I always update my definition file, before scanning. I use Ad-Aware SE about once every 2 days.
My Computer:
SONY Laptop PCG-FXA33
900Mhz AMD Duron CPU
80Mb Hitachi Hard Drive, with 2Mb buffer
Your thoughts?
Best wishes,
BaldEagle
4 October 2006
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Hi BaldEagle,
Have you tried defragmenting? Or doing a "chkdsk" for disk errors?
That might help speed things up.
Regards,
Spike
Have you tried defragmenting? Or doing a "chkdsk" for disk errors?
That might help speed things up.
Regards,
Spike
Dear Spike,
Thank you so very much for replying...
Ref: Your question - Have you tried defragmenting? Or doing a "chkdsk" for disk errors?
Answer: I defrag several times per week, and also run Norton's Win Doctor, and Disk Doctor.
I am a little puzzled as to why it slows down to a crawal around 108,000. I wonder if system memory is saturated.
Again, thanks for the reply...
/BaldEagle/
6 October 2006
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Thank you so very much for replying...
Ref: Your question - Have you tried defragmenting? Or doing a "chkdsk" for disk errors?
Answer: I defrag several times per week, and also run Norton's Win Doctor, and Disk Doctor.
I am a little puzzled as to why it slows down to a crawal around 108,000. I wonder if system memory is saturated.
Again, thanks for the reply...
/BaldEagle/
6 October 2006
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Hi BaldEagle,
Yes, I use SystemWorks too. My last AAW scan was 140,000 files in 7 mins - not sure why yours slows down to such a crawl.
As you say, perhaps it has something to do with memory, or even that you may be using a high percentage of your HDD. Can not be certain, as I am not aware of your situation.
You could run "msconfig" and see which programs loading at start-up are in fact needed then. Most programs set themselves to load at boot-up, even though you may not actually use them very often.
Check the list - leave system programs alone (of course
), but see which media players, instant messengers, even Adobe or Java-updates ( I look for those regularly on a manual basis) are set to load at startup. Also, the number of security programs running can hamper progress - too many are sometimes too much...
That might help.
Regards,
Spike
Yes, I use SystemWorks too. My last AAW scan was 140,000 files in 7 mins - not sure why yours slows down to such a crawl.
As you say, perhaps it has something to do with memory, or even that you may be using a high percentage of your HDD. Can not be certain, as I am not aware of your situation.
You could run "msconfig" and see which programs loading at start-up are in fact needed then. Most programs set themselves to load at boot-up, even though you may not actually use them very often.
Check the list - leave system programs alone (of course
), but see which media players, instant messengers, even Adobe or Java-updates ( I look for those regularly on a manual basis) are set to load at startup. Also, the number of security programs running can hamper progress - too many are sometimes too much...That might help.
Regards,
Spike
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