I recently formatted my PC and having 4 GB of RAM, my programs load the moment I click on them. Well, that was before I reinstall my antivirus but after I installed it, all programs took a while to load (some programs took over 10 secs to load). Appreciate all comments and help. TQ

This post has been edited by darkvamp86: Dec 24 2008, 10:26 PM

my guess is that Bitdefender scans the files when u open them...

have u tried disabling Bitdefender and do a comparison???

Yeah I did and the programs load significantly faster. Is there a way to bypass all those scans?

There's a method to bypass all those scans but you'll have to search for and disable "Auto-Protect/Live-Protect/Real-time Protection".

Oh okay. Will try that and let you know if that works. Thanks bro =)

No problem bro, my pleasure helping you.

Techno, I tried disabling the scan and guess what, it also turns off my antivirus completely...sigh...I ran out of ideas already....

Yes, I know that disabling the scan will turb off your antivirus but my question is, does it enhance your PC's performance?

I guess you can't have it both ways.

When bitdefender is in action, it scans EVERYTHING, loading, copying, moving, creating ... and that of course would slow down everything.

If you decide to disable the real-time scan, then, bitdefender just sits there waiting for you to call it to act.

Yep turning the protection off speeds up the load.

@convivencia : Yeah, that's the main con about BD...I was thinking of changing to Kaspersky after the license expires. Does Kaspersky slows down the system as bad as BD?

Urm, I'd definitely recommend that you try Kaspersky or maybe Norton. The year-2009 versions of Norton have really changed. They use little system resource and have few false-positives.

ermm ..



look at egui.exe
uses little resource eh?

This post has been edited by xelnamikaze: Dec 26 2008, 12:56 AM

Bro, please resize to 640 X 480 or spoiler it properly. Thanks for the screenshot btw, woa, with a system scan it uses so little memory? I've so gotta try that.

I heard that Norton literally "eats" your system memory a lot...far worse than BD...

Yes, you heard that very true but it you heard it A FEW YEARS AGO. Currently, NAV/NIS '09 are one of most little system resource AV/IS solutions after ESET's AV/IS solution.

Oh I see. Might take that into consideration Thanks again bro.

K-sky is not as bad, but there's still some slowdown. Not so noticeable, but slowdown nevertheless.

No problem bro. Don't have to thank me.

Actually, most of our computers (I'm assuming that we're using more than 2GB of RAM, no offense ) should be able to run most AV programs even though with Vista. ESET, Kaspersky and Norton are currently the best AV performers out there according to a benchmark/comparison that was done by a certain private company.

i'm using bitdefender internet security on both 32bit xp3 & 64bit vista sp1. also 4b of ram.
both also no slowdown.

I'm assuming TS has a lot of background processes.

Haha yeah I've 43 processes running but I can't seem to know why there are 6 svchost.exe running simultaneously...

The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load. Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services. Therefore, separate services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This grouping of services allows for better control and easier debugging.

Svchost.exe groups are identified in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Svchost

Each value under this key represents a separate Svchost group and appears as a separate instance when you are viewing active processes. Each value is a REG_MULTI_SZ value and contains the services that run under that Svchost group. Each Svchost group can contain one or more service names that are extracted from the following registry key, whose Parameters key contains a ServiceDLL value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Service

To view the list of services that are running in Svchost:
1. Click Start on the Windows taskbar, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type CMD, and then press ENTER.
3. Type Tasklist /SVC, and then press ENTER.

Tasklist displays a list of active processes. The /SVC switch shows the list of active services in each process. For more information about a process, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Tasklist /FI "PID eq processID" (with the quotation marks)

buang bitdefender... use kaspersky!

Heys, it's you again! Mr. Fan-boi.