updater apps that steal memory and CPU speed (RANT!)
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:18 pmGawd,
I just gave the Windows XP box I use to support my vintage computing a major overhaul. It's a 2.5GHZ pentium 4 but it had slowed to a crawl...particularly on boot up. I disabled all those "search for updates" autorun on startup applications (you know, Java, Google, Adobe etc.) and man, what a difference! The Abode ones were the worst. Almost akin to malware.
The computer was back to it's old self, but I then added an extra 1GB of memory bringing it up to 2GB. It's running sweetly now. I have noticed Dropbox still takes it's time to get going. That's one application I certainly want to keep though. The other one still there is AVG. That's an overhead too, but it has discovered a few old MS-DOS viruses on old floppies so I'll put up with it.
I just gave the Windows XP box I use to support my vintage computing a major overhaul. It's a 2.5GHZ pentium 4 but it had slowed to a crawl...particularly on boot up. I disabled all those "search for updates" autorun on startup applications (you know, Java, Google, Adobe etc.) and man, what a difference! The Abode ones were the worst. Almost akin to malware.
The computer was back to it's old self, but I then added an extra 1GB of memory bringing it up to 2GB. It's running sweetly now. I have noticed Dropbox still takes it's time to get going. That's one application I certainly want to keep though. The other one still there is AVG. That's an overhead too, but it has discovered a few old MS-DOS viruses on old floppies so I'll put up with it.
