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Willy2:
@Oscar: Do you have AVAST ? If yes, then only activate the "behaviour" & "file" shield.

Oscar:

--- Quote from: Shane on June 05, 2013, 10:28:40 pm ---Disable the antivirus completely and see if it speeds things up.

Shane

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Thanks

Hi Shane yes it does, not fast but an improvement.

Oscar:

--- Quote from: Willy2 on June 05, 2013, 10:37:17 pm ---@Oscar: Do you have AVAST ? If yes, then only activate the "behaviour" & "file" shield.

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Thank you

Yes i think these are the current settings, i think Shane said to set Avast to these settings in a prevoius thread i posted?

Shane:
Every antivirus slows down opening files a bit, since they scan everything you open.

Microsoft is the slowest scanner on the market and causes the most slow down, Avast has the faster scanner on the market, so while still a slow down it isn't as much as others.

Other factors come into play, such as the hard drive as you have to wait for it to read the file.

Shane

Willy2:
Another possibility: when Windows reads files from disk then it places the files in the filecache first before making them available to a program. That's why reading files for a second time takes less time. Try if collapsing the filecache (with e.g. CLEANMEM) causes a slowdown in reading the same file(s). If that's the case then I would start to think your harddisk is ageing.

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