re: spybot and ad-aware
Friday, October 29, 2004 at 8:21 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by t-bone
(23 messages posted)
thanks jack, us newbies appreciate folks like you that take the time to share experiences
and knowledge.
On Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 9:59 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>As both programs tend to use almost 100% of the available processor bandwidth,
>there would be little or no advantage in running both at the same time from a processor
>point of view. It would also add a lot of task switching overhead.
> Running both at the same time does cause some disk drive thrashing which will
>slow down the whole process. This will produce a noticeable slowdown. Same type
of
>thing happens when you try to run a disk drive virus scan at the same time.
> So you would be better off not to run them at the same time. It also helps
>to run the Disk CleanUp utility first so that un-needed files are deleted first
and
>not scanned. You can always start one and do some browsing the Internet or checking
>e-mail while it runs in the background.
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