Spyware Doctor hangs with SP3

[Greenalan1952]

I have successfully upgraded to SP3 and although Spyware Doctor loads on startup and runs quite happily in the background, as soon as I open the software it hangs. The only way of recovery is to power off. Any suggestions? :confused:

[haapy]

From a previous post. Try this. I hope it works.

I have found that the freeze ups are more due to XP SP3 than SD.

Check this site out.
http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix...u-memory-leak/

I had the same issues and this fixed it.

[swannie]

Hi,

This link has an error 404.

[AChen]

Hi,

This link has an error 404.

Haapy copied an incomplete link :p
Here is the complete link from one of his post - http://www.technibble.com/how-to-fix-svchost-using-100-cpu-memory-leak/

[Greenalan1952]

The link is for a different problem, my PC does not slow down on start up and svchost.exe does not use up memory. I will explain the problem better:
I boot up the PC, Spyware Doctor loads okay, does the automatic update and runs happily in the background showing the occasional alert message. My PC runs fine with minimal CPU usage.
When I open up Spyware Doctor it hangs instantly. Task Manager shows no abnormal CPU usage but has Spyware Doctor as not responding. I try to end the task and get an error message saying closure is not possible because the application is locked. I then hit the power button and re-boot.
Any help appreciated.

[swannie]

Interesting! This is what I'm seeing with PCTIS since this morning's update. PCTIS is running in the background. I open the GUI - it freezes. Task Manager shows 'Not Responding' but CPU usage is low. However, if I wait for a while PCTIS will start running again by itself. Just tried an Intelliscan -froze at 1%, started again, froze at 7%, started again and after 25 mins actually finished. After a few more 'frozen' moments, I finally got it to finish and close. I thought it was my PC about to die of old age, but it seems other people have the same experience. Any ideas anyone?
PS This is my XP SP3 PC.