Summary: TSVN was probably not the performance killer. The performance problems appeared without opening a context menu.
I uninstalled TSVN, but my PC became slow again and again. (Many reboots were involved) It turned out that the MSSE on-access virus scanner made access to every file extremely slow and my PC unusable. This does not begin at system start, but sometimes later. It scans every file even within my excluded types (like .iso) and even if it had read it right before. I think the additional file accesses for explorer operations, context menu and TSVN overlay symbols made them look the worst and thus the core problem. Without real-time scanning, the PC remains sane, although a few things like loading a website still perform badly. When I occasionally use my much older WXP PC (also on SSD), GUI and OS react swiftly in comparison to my newer one. That seems to leave me with the problem: how do I get the overlays back to work. ;-) Oh well, they are not that important, scripts will do the thing and I am used to working without any GUI, colour monitor and mouse. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/f6422755-7240-4fa7-8a53-93ed9d9bf2d5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
