Re: AVG, a lovable system resources hog (was:Can Jaws slow down your computer?)

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:10:52 -0700

As I told David, I'm not sure I feel like just running my computer 24 hours 
a day in order to do something like this.  but it's an idea.

Meantime, may I ask why you bother to exit Jaws before leaving the computer 
for the night?

thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert R. Matti" <rrm@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: AVG, a lovable system resources hog (was:Can Jaws slow down 
your computer?)


I have AVG set to scan at 2AM
I unload Jaws just before I go to bed.
the first thing I do with my PC in the morning is load Jaws and then
I have full speed
operation with speech.
on 02:11 PM9/27/2006, Yardbird said:
>Cy,
>I'm a longtime user of AVG Free Edition, and I certainly haven't had any
>virus hassles all this time, and I'm not about to try another such program.
>But I have to say that while it's running its morning scan of my hard 
>drive,
>which takes it more than 25 minutes, it slows down things just terribly.
>I'm partially sighted, so I can see that things on the screen are 
>responding
>more or less normally to commands I may key in, and I suspect that if I'm
>typing an email or something that my typing is also appearing on the screen
>as it should.  But Jaws is really crippled by having to operate at this
>time.  I press a key, and it may be 20 seconds before Jaws speaks what I've
>just done, whether it's a letter I've typed or a control key I've pressed 
>to
>execute something.
>
>as soon as AVG finishes its scan, it puts up a closing dialogue that 
>reports
>the scan's activities and results, and allows me to close the dialogue if I
>don't want to wait 30 seconds for it to close itself.  I generally close it
>so I can go on using the computer immediately without that dialogue getting
>in Jaws's way or my accidentally hitting a key that activates some control
>in the dialogue and screws things up.
>
>Anyway, I've learned to just go make another cup of coffee and listen to
>some radio news during this time, and I can live with that.  But just to
>chime in.  and of course, this isn't about Jaws itself slowing down things,
>so I'll change the subject line.

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