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I’ve updated to SP3. This has helped but things still aren’t perfect – still get some sound stuttering, and a lot of applications (VLC, Adobe Reader, Firefox) take forever to open.
Even Windows Explorer and certain other windows hang for a bit while the Avast icon spins about.
I’ve put VLC and Reader on the exclusion list, can’t do that with Firefox, obviously. I’ve also turned off the shield on opening files, which seems to help a bit.
I’ve already done the uninstall/reinstall of Avast – should I do that again, now that I have SP3? (I’ve also already defragged)
This machine as 1 GB of Ram. There’s about 11 GB of free space on the main partition. I’d really like to wait until next year to move onto the next computer.