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    Default TeaTimer using 100,000+ Kb

    Currently TeaTimer.exe is down to 94,400 K. It was at 122,000 before. It tends to be one of the highest memory usage processes running. There are only 8 other processes running.

    I saw something in another post about long lists making it require more RAM. I'm not sure what lists these are, but I just checked the "Black & White List" and the four lists there are all empty.

    System info: Dell Dimenstion 8250 (6 years old, but still running)
    Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
    512 MB of RAM
    XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP3
    Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.6.2.46

    I recently reinstalled Spybot. It had been compromised somehow. It was using up all this memory, as it still is, and the exe file was not in the Spybot - Search & Destroy directory, so I downloaded the latest version and reinstalled it.

    I'm still getting the extreme memory usage.

    Can anybody tell me how to make it take less memory? I want to use it as I believe it performs a valuable service.

    I thank you in advance for any help you can give.

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    Hello,

    When the computer is running for a long time without a standby, reboot, or shutdown memory consumption of a (refers to any) can slightly increase.

    It's taking that much because TeaTimer is a Resident Shield that actively protects you from malware. I would suggest you reboot and see how it goes. Usually TeaTimer will take up 35-50MB of RAM. Seeing that modern PCs built today have more RAM and resources, 80MB should be nothing.

    If this does not help you can disable TeaTimer as follows:
    - Go into Spybot - Mode - Advanced Mode - Tools - Resident.
    - Uncheck the following: Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings) Active.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spybotnorma View Post
    Hello,

    When the computer is running for a long time without a standby, reboot, or shutdown memory consumption of a (refers to any) can slightly increase.

    It's taking that much because TeaTimer is a Resident Shield that actively protects you from malware. I would suggest you reboot and see how it goes. Usually TeaTimer will take up 35-50MB of RAM. Seeing that modern PCs built today have more RAM and resources, 80MB should be nothing.

    If this does not help you can disable TeaTimer as follows:
    - Go into Spybot - Mode - Advanced Mode - Tools - Resident.
    - Uncheck the following: Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings) Active.
    Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know that. However, the behavior I was describing is at startup, not after a long period of idleness.

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    Is there any way to get access to older versions of Teatimer that don't hog resources (memory and processor) like the current version? The older versions (1.3 I think), only appeared to monitor changes to the registry and that (to me) is the best feature of Teatimer.

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    I answered my own question. You can get old versions of spybot at oldversion.com. Using Teatimer from SB 1.3, it uses a whopping 2 MB of memory, monitors the registry and lets Windows 7 monitor the rest.

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    Default Gradual High Memory Useage

    I have noticed that TeaTimer gradually uses more & more memory until a reboot. After reboot it uses 131MB RAM. I left my PC on for a week & at the end of the week TeaTimer was using just over 1GB of RAM. This appears to indicate a memory leak to me. Anyone else notice the same? I'm running Win 7 Ultimate 64 w/4GB RAM & Dual 3Ghz Intel.

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