Tea Timer can't "play nice"

[ander]

Spybot is great. I'd like to keep the Tea Timer real-time monitor running, too, but it slows my system down too much.

I have a reasonably fast dual-core notebook PC, and I keep it well maintained. After installing Spybot, I noticed that everything kept stopping throughout the day, and I had to wait several seconds to do something like scroll a webpage or select another window.

I soon found that Tea Timer was stepping in at random intervals and using more than half of my CPU ticks. That's just not practical. I've heard other people complain about this too.

I hope Spybot's developer will eventually learn how to make Tea Timer "play nice" with other apps and use only the CPU power that foreground tasks don't require.

Cheers, Ander

[spybotsandra]

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.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot