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martin.leese
2007-10-08, 04:08
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
2007-10-10, 05:29
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?
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
2007-10-10, 12:37
Hello,
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
martin.leese
2007-10-11, 02:46
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
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