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Hactar
Nov 23, 2009, 12:40:36 PM11/23/09
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In article <fef1a2b3-5a59-4708...@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com>,
Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 3:07�pm, Peter Ward <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > Any hints. �I've just attempted to reinstall V9 of AVG because it kept
> > grabbing focus, and that's what they suggested to fix it, and now it
> > won't install at all. �What else?
>
> Avast? They have a free version for home use.
>
> BTW, I run AVG on my older (XP) machine -- and it keeps soaking up the
> CPU cycles, and I have to pause the scan to get other things done. It
> seems to *sometimes* pay attention to my suggestion that it run at
> lower priority ... and then it pegs the needle again.
Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 17, 3:07�pm, Peter Ward <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > Any hints. �I've just attempted to reinstall V9 of AVG because it kept
> > grabbing focus, and that's what they suggested to fix it, and now it
> > won't install at all. �What else?
>
> Avast? They have a free version for home use.
>
> BTW, I run AVG on my older (XP) machine -- and it keeps soaking up the
> CPU cycles, and I have to pause the scan to get other things done. It
> seems to *sometimes* pay attention to my suggestion that it run at
> lower priority ... and then it pegs the needle again.
"Priority" -- at least in Linux and I suspect XP and other semi-modern OSes
too -- doesn't mean "low CPU use", it means "if any higher-priority
processes want the CPU, it yields". So if all you're running is
SOL.EXE, AVG gets darned near 100% of the CPU.
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