nedsram
11-19-2009, 07:51 PM
Since I upgraded to this version a couple of weeks ago, I have persistently had the following problems. Although all have been intermittent and occurred unpredictably, the cumulative effect has been to turn my PC into something of a disaster area. I have two other threads about some of these problems.
* Thunderbird suddenly refusing to open web links then hanging.
* BOINC Climate Prediction tasks hanging when due to upload files.
* Two taskbar apps stopping working: NetMeter and AutoHotkey.
* Not all apps scheduled to start up at boot time actually start.
* PC hangs during boot as either the SD security service or the SD startup service increases its memory usage to exceed the memory available on the PC.
Whitelisting the apps that were playing up had no effect whatsoever.
Today I was offered Vista SP2. I started the install just before I left for work, as I knew it would take around half an hour to complete. When I returned over 9 hours later, the progress bar was still showing 0%. The final straw was when I couldn't stop the installation, rebooted, then the SD security service caused the PC to hang. After uninstalling SDAV, and another reboot, this time it was the SD startup service's turn. (I still have registry mechanic installed.) That service has now been disabled.
Back to AVG free, and the PC booted several times faster, and everything has since worked just fine. Perhaps there is too much software on my PC for SDAV to cope. I can't say, except that I had a similar raft of problems on my previous PC with SDAV 6, and had to junk that as well.
Maybe I'll give it another try a few months down the line when it has been fully beta tested by other hapless users. :mad:
* Thunderbird suddenly refusing to open web links then hanging.
* BOINC Climate Prediction tasks hanging when due to upload files.
* Two taskbar apps stopping working: NetMeter and AutoHotkey.
* Not all apps scheduled to start up at boot time actually start.
* PC hangs during boot as either the SD security service or the SD startup service increases its memory usage to exceed the memory available on the PC.
Whitelisting the apps that were playing up had no effect whatsoever.
Today I was offered Vista SP2. I started the install just before I left for work, as I knew it would take around half an hour to complete. When I returned over 9 hours later, the progress bar was still showing 0%. The final straw was when I couldn't stop the installation, rebooted, then the SD security service caused the PC to hang. After uninstalling SDAV, and another reboot, this time it was the SD startup service's turn. (I still have registry mechanic installed.) That service has now been disabled.
Back to AVG free, and the PC booted several times faster, and everything has since worked just fine. Perhaps there is too much software on my PC for SDAV to cope. I can't say, except that I had a similar raft of problems on my previous PC with SDAV 6, and had to junk that as well.
Maybe I'll give it another try a few months down the line when it has been fully beta tested by other hapless users. :mad: