Spybot-SD Resident slow to start

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martin.leese

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Hi,

Spybot was very slow to fire up (issue 85), so I installed SpybotSD.exe 1.5.1.16. It now fires up in 50 seconds, which is fine. However when booting, Spybot-SD Resident takes 13 minutes to fire up. Any chance of speeding this up as well?

Many thanks,
Martin

CPU Speed: 500 MHz
System memory: 124 MBytes
Operation System: Windows 95
Antivirus solution: AVG 7.5.488
Firewall software: None
Other security software: None
Have floppy drive: [Yes/No] Yes
 
martin.leese said:
Spybot was very slow to fire up (issue 85), so I installed SpybotSD.exe 1.5.1.16. It now fires up in 50 seconds, which is fine. However when booting, Spybot-SD Resident takes 13 minutes to fire up. Any chance of speeding this up as well?
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It occurs to me that it might be the TeaTimer which is slow to start-up.

What happens with Spybot when the machine boots is that the floppy drive is accessed. At this point, if I look at the task manager it shows Teatime.exe running. Nothing now happens for 13 minutes. The floppy drive is then accessed a second time, and within a few seconds the Sypbot-SD Resident icon appears in the Taskbar tray on the right. The task manager still only shows Teatimer.exe running.

This lag during booting is just irritating, but I hope it can be solved.

Regards,
Martin
 
spybotsandra said:
A fix for the drive a check is availible in our beta forum:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=17886

Did you already tried the new Helloween Edition of Spybot?
This is the full installer for all the bugs fixed and new features implemented since 1.5.1.15.
http://www.safer-networking.org/files/beta/spybotsd15he-beta1.exe

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
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Just installed the Helloween Edition. It is no different in that, during booting, there is still a 13 minute lag before the Spybot-SD Resident icon appears. The floppy drive is no longer accessed, but that never really bothered me.

Please put this on your list of irritating problems to tackle.

Many thanks,
Martin
 
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