fixing slow PCs
Have you ever experienced your PC slowing down to a crawl, whereby you need to wait many seconds for each action (close window, open program, etc.) to execute? Many times it may be because of a runaway process (as can be seen in "Task Manager", where a rogue process will be taking 50% or more of CPU cycles). I have been much irritated by symantec’s notorious rtvscan, which becomes a runaway process every few days, forcing me to waste time, shut down the PC and reboot. (complaints about rtvscan can be found all over the web)
anyway, I had tried killing the process, setting it to low priority (from Task Manager), turning off auto-protect (and everything else) in Symantec Antivirus, and it hadn’t worked before. it was "protected", so couldn’t be killed from Task Manager. Today, I found a piece of software that works to force rtvscan into submission! check out http://www.bitsum.com/prosuper.asp
disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the software - just happy it works to control rogue runaway processes
check out http://stresscrack.blogspot.com/2006/12/process-throttler-found.html for more
