I had to upgrade from AVG 7 to AVG 8 recently because my 2 year
subscription ran out and ever since then the computer seems to be
running annoyingly slow. It wasn't so slow on AVG 7. Is it a problem
with my computer being relatively old, celeron 2.4ghz and 500mb ram or
could it be something else not related?

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:39 GMT, Tim923 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Is it a problem
>with my computer being relatively old, celeron 2.4ghz and 500mb ram or
>could it be something else not related?

If you're running XP, can you upgrade to 1GB of RAM. If Vista, 2 GB?
John Jones, Detroit

John Jones wrote:
>If you're running XP, can you upgrade to 1GB of RAM. If Vista, 2 GB?
>John Jones, Detroit

It is XP. I don't know how much RAM costs these days. I'll have to
find out. 1GB used to seem like, uh, science fiction.

On 28/04/2008 in message <(E-Mail Removed)>
Tim923 wrote:

>John Jones wrote:
>>If you're running XP, can you upgrade to 1GB of RAM. If Vista, 2 GB?
>>John Jones, Detroit
>
>It is XP. I don't know how much RAM costs these days. I'll have to
>find out. 1GB used to seem like, uh, science fiction.

Crucial are pretty well giving it away - as long as you don't need DDR3.

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
By the time you can make ends meet they move the ends

John Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:03:39 GMT, Tim923 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Is it a problem
>> with my computer being relatively old, celeron 2.4ghz and 500mb ram
>> or could it be something else not related?
>
> If you're running XP, can you upgrade to 1GB of RAM. If Vista, 2 GB?
> John Jones, Detroit

Hi John.
I doubt that this is much help, but, I have installed AVG Free 8 on six
computers since it came out. (some about the same specs as yours)
I have not seen a slowdown much worse than the 7.5 version (which is close
to nothing)
I do think they are going Hollywood with the graphics and that alone will
slow a PC a smidge.
I wonder if it is your shared ram built on board graphics chip? (I assume
because your ram should be 512MB)
I would try going into control panel then system then advanced then
performance and then visual effects and set it for best perfomance.
worth a try...
Clark...
--
Don't you have Google in your part of the world?

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:43:42 +0100, "alansd" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>However my cure was to uninstall AVG 8 and then system restore to the point
>before AVG 8 was installed - It seemed as if AVG 8 had affected Windows
>Explorer as opening windows was very slow. I would suggest uninstalling
>AVG 8 to see if it resolves your problem

Back to normal speed with AVG8(not free) removed.

On May 1, 4:56*pm, Tim923 <tws0...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:43:42 +0100, "alansd" <ala...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
> >However my cure was to uninstall AVG 8 and *then system restore to the point
> >before AVG 8 was installed - It seemed as if AVG 8 had affected Windows
> >Explorer as opening windows was very slow. I would suggest uninstalling
> >AVG 8 *to see if it resolves your problem
>
> Back to normal speed with AVG8(not free) removed.

You should check if you have this KB installed>
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/d...displaylang=en

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
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>
> "Judicandus" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bcf79598-d8d5-449e-a340-(E-Mail Removed)...
> On May 1, 4:56 pm, Tim923 <tws0...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:43:42 +0100, "alansd" <ala...@btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >However my cure was to uninstall AVG 8 and then system restore to the
> > >point
> > >before AVG 8 was installed - It seemed as if AVG 8 had affected Windows
> > >Explorer as opening windows was very slow. I would suggest uninstalling
> > >AVG 8 to see if it resolves your problem
> >
> > Back to normal speed with AVG8(not free) removed.
>
> You should check if you have this KB installed>
> http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/d...displaylang=en
>
>
> I have all the updates installed that have been offered via the windows
> update site - including SP1 however I don't appear
> to have this particular update (KB929547) installed.
>
> I tried to download and install it but the 'Windows Update Standalone
> Installer' reports that it does not apply to my system ?
> So I can't try this to see if it solves the problem with AVG8 .
>
> In the meantime I am still using AVG 7.5 and of course now experiencing the
> nagging pop ups telling me to install V8.
> How do you permanently switch these off?
>
> alansd

Well, maybe because 7.5 is just about to be phased out?

MM