TDS freezes at startup

This has been happening for a few months now. Circumvent is to close it and start it manually. Windows XP Home + SP1. Any bells ringing here? Any sign of TDS-4?

Tx

 

Checkout,

I had the same problem. The way I fixed it wes this:
1. Under configuration>>>startup, set run at windows start-up to no.
2. I then placed a shortcut to TDS in my startup folder.

This delays TDS starting a little bit and may help to avoid conflicts on startup. Anyways, this solved my hangup and freezing problems.

HTH.......

Regards,
Kent

 

Hi checkout,

I had a similar problem when I had TDS set to auto-update in config, I disabled auto-update and now it is fine, I just manually update via the menus when i need to.

It is worth saying though that TDS didn't freeze as such it just took a very long time to complete it's initial scans that made it appear to freeze. I use win2kSP3.

Wink

 

Start it manually or remove the "live process memory scan" from the start up scans and run that a bit later.

That scan is very deep and intensive and will often take all your CPU cycles and may appear as "Not Responding" when it is actually working correctly. On my rather slow machine it takes up to 10 minutes to complete that one scan.

 

Checkout:

Linney is correct. The Process Memory Space Scan is intensive and if allowed on start-up, it takes a while.

Now, I am presuming by *start-up* you are referring to RE-BOOT so will work on that premise.

1]: Select TDS NOT to start on Reboot / Startup

2]: I placed a shortcut on Quick Launch and start it from there once system is up, BEFORE reconnecting to Internet.

3]: I have UNCHECKED the Process Memory Space Scan so when starting it, it skips that particular scan.

4]: Just before leaving computer, run a FULL SYSTEM SCAN from TDS System Testing twice a week. That should be sufficient to cover all bases. [At least it works for me ]

Those are MY preferred options.

 

Right, i also start TDS manually after reboot; a few times opened TaskInfo to see what was hng and indeed TDS at those scan processes mentioned takes all available CPU to speed up the scanning process.
So after TDS is ready i start other programs, seldom before that.