technocat
04-15-2007, 11:44 AM
I have been tearing my hair out for some time now, I even just upgraded (sort of) my pc from a decent system AMD X2 4600 and Epox MF570SLI board as I thought my motherboard was a problem as I had been trying to identify why my pc was going so slow at boot and random pausing. I put this down to the motherboard, and yesterday I bought a new Intel motherobard and conroe 2 cpu. Re-installed windows yesterday and everything was lightning quick, until I installed spyware doctor. I had been running version 4 and just before I "upgraded" (I use this term loosely as it isnt really an upgrade) my system I tried version 5. Same slowness on pc so it didn't make much difference which is why I put it down to the hardware.
So I have figured out what is causing the slowdown, I have just removed spyware doctor altogether from my pc and it's running lightning quick again (as it should, raid 0, conroe 6400 cpou and 2gb memory, which it should have also with the amd system which was just as quick).
So lesson learned, a very expensive lesson, I had no need to upgrade in the first place, all I had to do was remove spyware doctor. I had looked at the processes and there was no excessive cpu or ram useage at all. What was causing the problems? I have no idea but it definitely was doing something wrong. I like using spyware doctor, hence why I have had it for 18 months or so, but this just takes the biscuit, I cant belive I overlooked it in diagnosing the problem, it was making BOTH my systems run slower than my single core XP2600 which had been 3 years old.
PC Tools you should look into this, it's definitely doing something wrong, maybe just on my system? who knows but thats 2 different (completely) setups of hardware it was going wrong with, so I doubt it's just my system.
Uninstalled and pc running as it should.
So I have figured out what is causing the slowdown, I have just removed spyware doctor altogether from my pc and it's running lightning quick again (as it should, raid 0, conroe 6400 cpou and 2gb memory, which it should have also with the amd system which was just as quick).
So lesson learned, a very expensive lesson, I had no need to upgrade in the first place, all I had to do was remove spyware doctor. I had looked at the processes and there was no excessive cpu or ram useage at all. What was causing the problems? I have no idea but it definitely was doing something wrong. I like using spyware doctor, hence why I have had it for 18 months or so, but this just takes the biscuit, I cant belive I overlooked it in diagnosing the problem, it was making BOTH my systems run slower than my single core XP2600 which had been 3 years old.
PC Tools you should look into this, it's definitely doing something wrong, maybe just on my system? who knows but thats 2 different (completely) setups of hardware it was going wrong with, so I doubt it's just my system.
Uninstalled and pc running as it should.