Paul in Houston, TX wrote:
null wrote:
Been using SM for years without problems, but this year it seems to
run slower and slower.
Also been running Zone Alarm free firewall + antivirus for a very
long time. There is
increasing circumstantial evidence that ZA's antivirus checking is
slowing the loading of
SM - and a lot of my other programmes, too - but it is worst with SM.
When run, SM often
takes a minute or more before even the browser frame appears, and
Firefox was not much
better until I recently discovered how to do what FF calls a
"refresh", whereupon load
speed improved considerably compared to SM. Chrome has always loaded
fast, but that's
irrelevant to my problems because I don't like it and rarely use it.
So .....while it seems to slow file running and saving in general,
why would ZA so
particularly affect SM in comparison with my refreshed FF?
Can't be the computer - got 2GB RAM, 3.2MHz CPU, keep the HD well
defragged, etc.
Anyone here using ZA who has a similar problem?
I use ZA firewall but never the anti-virus. Actually I dont use any
anti-virus at all
for at least 10 years now and have never noticed that problem.
Easy enough to check out.
Turn off loading of ZA and see if it makes a difference.
I realize that some users, like yourself, don't use an antivirus yet
report no problems for years. My experience has been the opposite and I
now wouldn't be without both firewall and antivirus, no even to solve
this pesky slowness problem. Perhaps the virus danger level depends on
what programmes you install, what you use your computer for, and where
you go on the net - everyone is different in that regard, and your
activities may have kept you at very low risk for some reason.
As for ZA slowing things down, snoozing the firewall and/or antivirus
through the system tray icon results in very little improvement.
However, today I thought I'd try the toolbar option that allows you to
restart with add-ons disabled. Surprised to see from the window that
pops up that this actually is how to restart SM in safe mode, something
I had read about but had always assumed referred to the OS safe mode. SM
could do with a bit of clarification about this. Anyway, the result was
that SM started loading in around 9 seconds instead of the recent 60
seconds or more, and this continued a number of times when SM was
started normally from the desktop icon, so the problem seems to have
stopped. Various other programmes and utilities are also loading faster
as they used to. The strange thing is that nothing seems to have changed
with what SM chooses to call the Add-ons, actually extensions or
plugins, which are not the same thing. I have no extensions. As for the
plug-ins, some were previously set to automatic, some to manual, and a
couple disabled - none of that changed after I carried out the above,
yet the slow loading problem disappeared. All very mysterious and
frustrating, to say nothing of time consuming, Sigh.
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