AVG runs out of System Resources?

[MikeMoss]

Hi

My computer…

Dell XPS. Windows XP Pro. Dual Core 3ghx. 2gig fast ram. Nvidia 7800 GTX video card. Everything clean and spy-ware free. Defragged no Registry Errors, no unnecessary start up items.

Every time I try and run a complete scan of my computer or even drive C using AVG my computer grinds to a halt and runs out of system resources. The display becomes corrupted and some of the type disappears from the menus.

The mouse still works and I can sometimes shut down other times not.

Now here is the weird thing.

I can edit, encode and copy feature length films using Adobe Premiere with no problems.
I do it all the time, so why does it do this just running a virus check?

I can run complex 3D creation software etc. is this a problem with AVG or some kind of configuration thing.

It has done this for quite a while; I never had this problem when I was using McAfee which is a notorious resource hog.

Anyone have any idea?

Mike

 

[MikeThorne]

Hi

I always get a new computer every 3 years.
My computer is my source of income and is all a write off.
I pass my old one on to some friend or relative.
And as I said this computer has been kind of a lemon any way.

I'm always looking for something that will run faster.
Some video editing and 3D graphics stuff can still be pretty slow.

What I usually do when I reinstall Windows (I did this a few months ago) is create a new user ID and then Turn off everything that loads at startup, services and programs, in that ID.

I then reboot and run a repair install using that ID.

It gives me pretty close to a clean install and I don't have to reinstall everything again.
Some of my Adobe software has to be reinstalled but not all of it.
I have had this resolve a lot of problems that a normal repair install didn’t.

This seems to work pretty well (I have tried it on a number of my friends computers) and saves a lot of time and I leave the old ID on for a few weeks until I’m sure that everything is back up and running. I can switch back and forth to retrieve address books etc. This didn’t solve the AVG problem though.

I did think about installing a second copy of Windows on my 2nd internal hard drive.
I have 4 hard drives 2 internal and 2 external firewire drives.

For now I will just stick with the Avira anti virus until time to get a new computer since it seems to work fine.

I did have McAfee on here before but removed it because it was such a recourse hog.

Now, if I could just figure out why I can’t log in here with my old account.
I never did get any response to my e-mails.

Thanks again for the help.

Mike

 

[kjv1611]

This post may come a bit late, but I have a couple of guesses.

[ol][li]You are running Windows XP 64 bit. I had a Dell pretty high-end system I purchased for a small business that was giving random blue-screen crashes that started out of the blue and then stopped out of the blue. The issue seemed to be some hickups in the 64 bit version of Windows. I hate that there are issues still there, b/c I'd love to be able to run a 64 bit OS without worries of such problems, mainly to be able to address more memory.[/li]
[li]Your Re-Install Process I have personally noticed not too long ago that occasionally, reinstallation of programs, upgrades of them, etc, can cause all sorts of weird things. I noticed this with some stuff by MS and Adobe. My guess is that some Registry files get messed up somewhere, or perhaps the wrong files get left or overwritten. To check for this, you could try running a registry "cleaner" of some sort and see if that fixes, assuming you even care to mess with this anymore. One that I like using, and have never seen any serious problems, is RegScrubXP. You can still get it from MajorGeeks.com, though I don't think it's supported any longer. I believe support ended for it well over 1 or 2 years ago, but it still seems to work great. If it doesn't fix the problem, it should at least help a little bit in overall system performance and stability. Of course, there are others out there, that's just one I've used quite a bit.
[/li][/ol]

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