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re: spybot and ad-aware Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 9:59 pm Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spybot and ad-aware Friday, October 29, 2004 at 8:21 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spybot and ad-aware Friday, October 29, 2004 at 9:34 am Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) see this link for other information and products.... http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1098398984 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spybot and ad-aware Friday, October 29, 2004 at 9:25 pm Posted by t-bone (23 messages posted) wow joe. this is awesome. many thanks to you. On Friday, October 29, 2004 at 9:34 am, joe wrote: >see this link for other information and products.... > >http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1098398984 > >src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/thebeastizme/dbed38d6.gif"> [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: spybot and ad-aware Saturday, October 30, 2004 at 7:18 am Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) no prob. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum