Ok, I have cruised around this forum, and I have to say that most all
of my questions have been asked and answered by others…very nice
Here is one that I see repeatedly, and I may have another suggested answer for.
This concerns Vista users…(like my wifes ubber laptop)…and the “slow downs” to system boot/performance.
As I am sitting here, I am also watching my wife’s laptop cruise right along as it is suppose to.
But this was not the case first thing this morning when she turned it on. The boot was a bit slow,
and the performance was suffering…(at that point I think a pong machine would have been faster)…so
I did a little digging…remotely…(wireless home networking is the only way to go)…and what do you think I found???
First off, I dug into avast, but lo’ and behold it was simply doing its’ job…nothing new or out of the ordinary, just doing its checks in the background like normal…which does NOT cause system slowdown.
So, I had to look elsewhere…thats right, you guessed it…into the VISTA system itself .
Vista is an ubber cow of a bloated OS, and its’ updates…(set to automatically happen)…are even more bloated
than the XP updates back when it first came out. The Vista installers…(yes…PLURAL)…where installing what seemed to be an entire new OS for the amount of resources they were using…(70 to 80% of system time…NOT in the background)…and poor avast was STILL doing its’ job. Big surprise I know, Vista causing the system to choke. :o
So, here are my suggestions for Vista folks:
Turn OFF system auto updates…(the trouble with this is, you WILL want to check for updates at least once
every couple of days…Vista is still buggy and updates pile up)
Instead of that, you could clear out your start up folder, (Having less things auto start may help a choking system)
Or, another suggestion is to turn off auto updates in avast, and then just update manually as needed. This option may prevent some conflicts between Vista updates and avast updates.
In any case, avast is going to protect the system by doing its’ job…scanning incoming material so that the system does not get sick.
Our friends at Microsaoft have a nasty habit of releasing bloated, buggy, operating systems, and then letting all the pissed off people fix it for them by having a world-wide debug session. This is not new, and we should all be use to it by now. Heck, XP is STILL being patched, and even the patches are buggy…(sp3 anyone?)
So, before we all yell at a particular piece of software for our woes…maybe we should look at the root cause first.
Vista is still being DEBUGGED. For any software to work as well on it as avast does is a miracle.
Once Vista updates released my wifes system, I had to go thru and turn off services that I did not want on, or that could cause conflicts with other things she has. So, from now on…I will be doing her system updates so I can keep an eye on what is being updated.
If I remember right…we had similar troubles back in the winxp start up days…hmmmm… :o :o :o
This is just my two cents…something to think about.
There is no conflicts between avast and Vista nowadays… I see no reason to lose the protection and reliability of having both (OS and antivirus) automatic updated.
Hello…
The only problems i have seen with avast on a vista system is where the vista pc has been purchased as a bargain from somewhere like pcworld and has been given the minimum amount of ram.This affects all operations.In fact a neighbour bought vista basic pc with only 512 meg of ram.Yes it will run …but very slowly.Adding 2gig has given it a welcome performance boost.Im not sure whether the ram issue applies to you ,but worth a mention for others.
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ROFL…well that is good to know, unfortunately, at least from my end in silicon forest users would tend to
disagree. Vista conflicts with everything, however, those who have an aggressive tech team such as avast and others
are managing to stay involved and even a little ahead of the game.
I hate to say this, but as I mentioned above, Vista is still a bloated buggy cow of an OS…eventually it will calm down, much the same way as XP has calmed down but until then, the possibility will exist for a conflict to happen pretty much at any time with an update or patch. As it is now, there are still many programs that do not work with Vista and require
a capable team of coders to update them. Unfortunately, not all of the programs will be fixed. Some companies have opted to create a new version or product rather than updating the existing one.
But, I will amend my suggestion as follows:
If you are an average user who does not look into the background of your systems processes, make NO changes. Just leave the system settings on auto. If something does happen, then well knowledged people like the forum experts here will be able to offer help and corrections. If however you are a system tinkerer like myself, I would kill the OS auto updates, and just check them manually every couple of days. This way, you will be able to review just what these updates are, and if something does happen, you may have an easier time undoing/fixing it.
And just for the record…my wifes laptop was customized to be able to edit and burn video from a wide variety of sources, including straight from a video camera. I will post the particulars at some point, but rest assured that it is not a “bargain basement” laptop…lol I know, I am still paying the bill
I can second this, although it probably doesn’t apply to every System with Vista.
I just set up a HP Vista laptop (including the wireless internet service,) that my mother purchased a couple weeks ago and I can tell you that the Intel Core Duo and 4 GB’s of memory makes a dramatic difference! :o This piece of equipment ZIPS right along with absolutely no hesitation that I’ve seen.
Sadly, what worked well for XP (or at least satisfactorily,) isn’t going to work well with Vista. This is going to be the same kind of leap, system resource wise, that we saw when XP came out and folks with Windows 95/98 were wanting to upgrade.
Glad to hear your wifes pc is a decent one .I did not intend to offend by suggesting it was a bargain basment pc ,however i have seen avast perform very poorly on vista (along with other apps) with just 512meg of ram which some some retailers offer.To be honest i haven’t had that much trouble with vista ,although i do use tweakuac to partially disable UAC.The only other problems i have had is with multiremiders ,but installing to C: rather than program files usually solves the problem.
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I am so frustrated! Why aren’t there complete sentences? I read a part of a question that in the middle has… the rest of the question is missing. The same is true about every sentence. How are we supposed to be able to figure out what was said?
Also there were no answers to the questions! I am a newbie & trying to figure out why this antivirus program won’t give me a report on a scan that took over 2 hours but when I go to check it-it’s turned off. Then I go to the menu & last scan report & view scan reports is grayed out. How can we learn anything when you can’t read the complete sentences? How do we know if we have a virus?
