I have never noticed MSE slowing down my system appreciably while a scan is
in progress. It's jus thtat it seems to take longer now for my XP system to
boot up and for JAWS to start talking than it used to , which is not
addressed in this article.
Gerald
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From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:51 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] important information regarding MSE
How to Keep Microsoft Security Essentials from Slowing Down Your System
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http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-keep-microsoft-security-essentia
ls-slowing-down-your-system.htm
How to Keep Microsoft Security Essentials from Slowing Down Your System
Updated 19. September 2011 - 6:33 by v.laurie
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is Gizmo's Freeware Product of the
Year
for 2010. Recently, a new version came out and it has a setting that can
be
very useful to owners of older, slower PCs or netbooks.
Even when an efficient antivirus program does a scan, it can use enough
system resources to cause a noticeable slowdown of older machines. Version
2
of MSE has a setting that can cut down the impact that a scan has on the
system. The amount of CPU time allocated to the scan can be limited. While
it won't make much difference in a new quad-core machine, it can keep an
old
single-core system or a netbook from bogging down and allow you to
continue
to work during a scan.
There is a tradeoff-using less CPU time means taking longer to finish a
scan.
To configure the settings, open MSE and select the "Settings" tab. As the
figure below shows, you can adjust the amount of CPU time devoted to a
scan
in a drop-down menu. The default setting seems to be 50%. If limiting the
CPU is not important in your particular system, remove the check by "Limit
CPU usage during scan". That will speed up your scans.
By experimenting with this CPU setting, you should be able to find one
that
is best for your particular system.
David Ferrin
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