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PG slowed my computer to a crawl, therefore I uninstalled it. Somehow I didnt like it much

 

Hi Firecat,

On my XP system (2.5 GHz, 512MB), ProcessGuard barely shows itself. Of the security products that I have run, the biggest resource usage was MS AS, followed by BOClean (probably because of the PG conflict), followed by Ewido. I usually do not run the ATs in real-time anymore, so my system is basically dead unless I am doing something in FireFox. As I speak, I went into Windows Task Manager, and zero CPU is being used.

I think I noticed once on my machine that PG was usintg 99% or something like that. It was after (or during) a Windows Update and I had not turned off PG. The only other reason I can think of that PG caused the heavy resource usage, is if my some chance, it had pushed your virtual memory into a trashing condition - something I highly doubt.

Rich

 

Maybe its just that I need to reformat and start clean - this current installation of WinXP Home has been through three different soundcards, as well as two different AVs, plus some other hardware changes. I am pretty sure I cleaned out most of the unwanted stuff, but you never know what remains.....

 

True. In my case, I did a complete reinstall (this was after the NAV disaster about a year or so ago) and after that I took a clean image copy using Image for DOS. Then I put my security products on including KAV and PG, and then I took another image copy. So my machine was pretty clean when I installed.

Rich